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Verisign Certificate Expiration Causes Multiple Problems

Posted by michael on from the rot-at-the-root dept.

We had to do a little sleuthing today. Many readers wrote in with problems that turned out to be related. A certificate which Verisign used for signing SSL certificates has expired. When applications which depend on that certificate try to make an SSL connection, they fail and try to access crl.verisign.com, the certificate revocation list server. This has effectively DOS'ed that site, and Verisign has now updated the DNS record for that address to include several non-routable addresses, reducing the load on their servers. Some applications affected include older Internet Explorer browsers, Java, and Norton Antivirus (which may manifest itself as Microsoft Word being very slow to start). Hope this helps a few people, and if you have other apps with problems, please post about them below.

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  1. Hrm by Judg3 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    hich may manifest itself as Microsoft Word being very slow to start

    So I take it this has been a problem with Word for the past 10 years or so? Or did you mean "Microsoft Word being even SLOWER to start"?

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