Many secure sites no longer open

I recently lost access to many sites like discovercard.com. The connection eventually just times out. Very annoying. Already junked and reinstalled Mozilla. Didn't make a difference. Same issue with Safari and I suspect any other browser. No problem from other computers on campus.

"Other computers" Are they Apples?
Another obvious question - what has changed, if anything, on your system? Although computers occasionally do unusual things, they rarely just decide on their own to change their behavior.
Do you have the internal OS X firewall activated? If so (a good idea), check the port settings.
Barry

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