I receive secure connection failure if I try accessing certain websites

I have been trying to access certain websites and I keep getting secure connection failure for about a week now. When I try using other browsers they don't work either. I tried most of the troubleshooting methods mention here but its still persists. Below are the screenshots of the message I receive and the browser console error message.
http://prntscr.com/6yjmfz
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Strangely, I noticed a couple of https sites I had trouble logging into from a link inside a https site.
In System Preferences I went to Accouns and for myself unchecked "Enable parental controls".
I was then able to log onto the the https site.

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Recently I kept getting the error message "Secure Connection Failure" when using Firefox to go to https sites. I had a similar problem when I tried using Safari to connect to https sites.
I fixed the problem by opening System Preferences > Parental Controls > selecting the appropriate User (as long as you have administration rights) > selected Allow unrestricted access to websites (by default Try to limit access to adult websites automatically is selected).
Once I checked unrestricted access I was able to go to the https sites I wanted, which were my bank's site and the Firefox homepage for FAQs. Then I went back and checked "Try to limit ...". That brought back the error message again so I checked "Allow unrestricted access ...".
The issue may have arisen because I downloaded a system security update a few days ago. Perhaps it reset the Parental Controls default.
It would be good to block adult sites but the alternative seems to be to customize in Parental Controls the sites that are OK. This would be a tedious job because so many sites are https eg this site.
I no longer have a problem but thought this might help others.

Strangely, I noticed a couple of https sites I had trouble logging into from a link inside a https site.
In System Preferences I went to Accouns and for myself unchecked "Enable parental controls".
I was then able to log onto the the https site.

Can't access certain websites ("Connection Interru...

Hi, I'm having problems accessing certain websites. Certain websites are giving me the following error (in Firefox);
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I get similar errors in the other browsers. I tried connecting to them via a proxy and it works. I also asked a friend to try and they work for him on Virgin, so definitely seems to be a problem with my connection.
I also got that error intermittently while browsing the forum here. One of the websites I can't access is mine, so it's getting annoying not being able to do stuff I usually do.
I have turned off/unplugged my home hub, but that didn't help.
Any ideas? Thanks.

I did a traceroute on one of the websites that I can't access
Tracing route to hawkhost.com [208.43.49.44]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1    77 ms    99 ms    99 ms 192.168.1.254
2    23 ms    23 ms    23 ms esr6.kingston4.broadband.bt.net [217.47.46.145]
3    24 ms    23 ms    24 ms 217.47.46.77
4    24 ms    25 ms    25 ms 213.1.69.54
5    24 ms    25 ms    26 ms 217.32.24.234
6    28 ms    25 ms    26 ms 217.32.24.58
7    55 ms    65 ms    27 ms 217.32.24.182
8    26 ms    25 ms    24 ms acc2-10GigE-0-2-0-5.l-far.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.1
59.249.227]
9    57 ms    52 ms    43 ms 109.159.249.169
10    28 ms    34 ms    41 ms transit1-xe11-1-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [194.72.1
7.122]
11    27 ms    27 ms    28 ms t2c1-ge14-0-0.uk-eal.eu.bt.net [166.49.168.25]
12   116 ms   116 ms   135 ms t2c1-p5-0-0.us-ash.eu.bt.net [166.49.164.65]
13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
21     *        *        *     Request timed out.
22     *        *        *     Request timed out.
23     *        *        *     Request timed out.
24     *        *        *     Request timed out.
25     *        *        *     Request timed out.
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''rahuldecoded [[#answer-718441|said]]''
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