diff --git a/src/main.js b/src/main.js
index 72eac7c..0e9c786 100755
--- a/src/main.js
+++ b/src/main.js
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ var App = {
 		this.compressFile = this.getEnv('TEMP') +'\\'+ this.module +'.7z';
 		this.mdbFile = this.moduleDir +'\\'+ this.module +'.mdb';
 		this.lockFile = this.moduleDir +'\\'+ this.module +'.ldb';
+		this.certFile = this.appDir +'\\cacert.pem';
 
 		// Creates the necessary registry entries
 		
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ var App = {
 				'DESCRIPTION'    : Conf.appName,
 				'SERVER'         : Conf.dbHost,
 				'DATABASE'       : Conf.dbName,
-				'SSLCA'          : this.appDir +'\\cacert.pem',
+				'SSLCA'          : this.certFile,
 				'SSLVERIFY'      : 1,
 				'AUTO_RECONNECT' : 1
 			};
@@ -261,11 +262,19 @@ var App = {
 	 */
 	fetchVersion: function() {
 		// Gets the last version number using the MySQL ODBC connection
-		
-		var mysqlConn = new ActiveXObject('ADODB.Connection');
+
+		var mysqlConn;
 
 		try {
-			mysqlConn.open(Conf.dsName);
+			mysqlConn = this.openOdbc({
+				'Driver': '{MySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver}',
+				'Server': Conf.dbHost,
+				'Database': Conf.dbName,
+				'User': this.$('user').value,
+				'Password': this.$('password').value,
+				'SslVerify': 1,
+				'SslCa': this.certFile
+			});
 		} catch (err) {
 			var dbErrors = mysqlConn.errors;
 
@@ -337,8 +346,10 @@ var App = {
 		var localVersion;
 
 		try {
-			var mdbConn = new ActiveXObject('ADODB.Connection');
-			mdbConn.open('Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source='+ this.mdbFile +';');
+			var mdbConn = this.openOdbc({
+				'Provider': 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0',
+				'Data Source': this.mdbFile
+			});
 
 			var oRs = new ActiveXObject('ADODB.Recordset');
 			oRs.Open('SELECT Version FROM tblVariables', mdbConn);
@@ -354,6 +365,15 @@ var App = {
 			? version
 			: null;
 	},
+
+	openOdbc(options) {
+		var optionsArray = [];
+		for (var option of options)
+			optionsArray.push(option +'='+ options[option]);
+
+		var conn = new ActiveXObject('ADODB.Connection');
+		return conn.open(optionsArray.join(';'));
+	},
 	
 	onRequestReady: function(request) {
 		if (request.readyState !== 4)