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Posted by Naklajat on Sun May 29th at 11:43am 2005

Whenever I start up Hammer it tries to connect to http://crl.microsoft.com/ so of course I deny it. Hammer has nothing to do with Microsoft and Microsoft has nothing to do with Hammer. So why would Hammer want to connect to a Microsoft site? It may be a virus, but why would a virus want to connect to Microsoft? unless it was distributed by Microsoft... smiley

Does anyone else get this or know why it might happen? I traced the IP and did a whois, and it was indeed a Microsoft IP. I'm scurred and confused...


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Posted by Leperous on Sun May 29th at 12:32pm 2005

http://www.michaelbraly.com/archives/000153.html



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Posted by Naklajat on Sun May 29th at 12:59pm 2005

Thank you sooooo much for the link! Now I know what probably caused it. A forum I frequent started displaying the year as 2025 on posts made, and recently it was down. I checked back today and it asked me to accept an unsigned certificate... I did... stupidly... In any case I think I could get rid of the problem by deleting the certificate, but I don't know which one it is. Would deleting all of the certificates be an okay thing to do?

Edit: I will also be running two virus scans now.



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