crl -Good, bad or innocuous?
07-12-2004, 09:14
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crl -Good, bad or innocuous?
I recklessly spent £10 on a copy of Sim City 4 yesterday and when I started running it my Sygate firewall warned that the program was trying to contact crl.microsoft.com. I said 'no', and this did not seem to cause any problems.
Anyway, what exactly is crl? A bit of googling suggested that it stood for certificate revocation list and that it might be something to do with updating the pki list, whatever that is. After this, the trail seemed to become extremely confusing, so I thought it might be better to ask here. So, what exactly does crl do and should I allow the program to access the MS site, or would it be better to get my firewall to permanently block access, or doesn't it make any difference what I do?
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07-12-2004, 09:24
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Re: crl -Good, bad or innocuous?
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DIRECTX ISSUES
Authenticated Drivers
If your drivers are authenticated by Microsoft, then DX9 may try to verify if they have expired by connecting to the following URL crl.Microsoft.com.
This is a Microsoft Certification check for expiration of Certificate site.
This could be triggered when the game/demo is run, as it interfaces with the video and sound drivers installed in Windows.
This feature of Windows can be turned off in the following way: Start Internet explorer and click... Tools | Internet Options Click the ADVANCED TAB, then scroll down to Security: UNCHECK the boxes that say "CHECK FOR PUBLISHERS CERTIFICATE REVOCATION" and "CHECK FOR SERVERS CERTIFICATE REVOCATION(requires restart)" This will stop Windows from trying the verify if a certificated drivers certificate has expired or not.
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That looks like it may be the problem.
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07-12-2004, 12:57
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Re: crl -Good, bad or innocuous?
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Originally Posted by s1lv3r
That looks like it may be the problem.
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Thanks. I'll check out my settings.
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07-12-2004, 13:00
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Re: crl -Good, bad or innocuous?
No problem.. happy to help 
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07-12-2004, 14:25
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Re: crl -Good, bad or innocuous?
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Originally Posted by s1lv3r
No problem.. happy to help |
The publisher's one was checked, so I unchecked it, which seems to have solved the problem.
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07-12-2004, 14:26
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Re: crl -Good, bad or innocuous?
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Originally Posted by Theodoric
The publisher's one was checked, so I unchecked it, which seems to have solved the problem.
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 good stuff
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