Re: My hammer wants to connect to Microsoft? Posted by Naklajat on Sun May 29th 2005 at 11:43am

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Posted 2005-05-29 11:43am

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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...

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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Re: My hammer wants to connect to Microsoft? Posted by Leperous on Sun May 29th 2005 at 12:32pm

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Posted 2005-05-29 12:32pm

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Re: My hammer wants to connect to Microsoft? Posted by Naklajat on Sun May 29th 2005 at 12:59pm

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Posted 2005-05-29 12:59pm

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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.