[e12e]

> browsing all kinds of sketchy sites with Firefox and chrome

How did you install those - downloaded via another system? Because with that old system, you are missing ssl certificates (Firefox and Chrome bring their own).

[smileybarry]

Maybe, but with good old Windows PKI you’re bound to still have a working chain of trust with Mozilla/Google.

…either that or the machine cheated and updated root CAs in the background (which isn’t Windows Update-controlled anymore).