I'm not official enough for you?


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Does this stop the AC Client crashes after 3 hrs of running Lifetank?


Thanks

no

how do we disable windows from checking certs? im sure it's possible

 

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that would be a bad idea.


as Haz said in another thread.. these types of "fixes" relate to using a Nuke to kill an ant.


they can also cause futher trouble for you. If you modify your hosts file to "fix" the issue currently, you'll need to modify it back before being able to sucessfull install Decal in the future.


As we've said.. we're working on fixing it and getting a new release out soon. It's only a huge problem when the server goes down, and we're really hoping the server doesn't go down.. so for as long as it remains up (which should be a while) you shouldn't have any problems loading it.

This is possibly one of the stupidest conversations I've ever read.


Magi, you're a programmer. You should know what a certificate is, and what information is being sent back and forth in one. Heck, you could have just downloaded a freeware packet intercepting program and seen for yourself what is being sent back and forth.


As far as what the different elements of decal do, the original source code behind decal is still public domain and available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/decaldev/ in the CVS repository. You could well just go look for yourself and see what the denagent element of decal does.


All that needs to be said is this:


General user: The decal devs accidentally enabled an obnoxious windows security feature that checks a website everytime the program is run. It's going away.


Power user: Elements of decal are now managed code, with the unwanted side effect that the app is looking for a current certificate everytime it runs. It's going away.

Illusion you missed one:


General user: The decal devs accidentally enabled an obnoxious windows security feature that checks a website everytime the program is run. It's going away.


Power user: Elements of decal are now managed code, with the unwanted side effect that the app is looking for a current certificate everytime it runs. It's going away.


arch-magi go away.


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Yes, I know what a certificate is.


But if you scroll back, that wasn't my initial question.


What I wanted to know was "What, if any, additional information was being sent back to insanity.org?"


I didn't throw out a packet sniffer to check to see if ONLY a cert was being checked. I was taking the Devs on face value and asking questions.


You do remember that there have been "trojans" that were made for Decal that sent back login names and passwords, and I thought this might possibly be something along those lines. Further, it could be another form of Trojan that went out and gathered other non-Asheron's Call information (CC info, a key logger, etc).


As for why I asked why care, I haven't knowingly installed anything from insanity.org. I run ElTank and Treestats. That is all. To the best of my knowledge (and I'm sure someone will set me straight if I'm wrong), those programs never asked me to install anything from the insanity.org site. Which made me think that only one of two things could be happening. One, I had a trojan and my data was being compromised or two, just installing Decal installed something from insanity.org. So I went with asking what does insanity.org put out that Decal would be using. I was then GOING to (and I guess I am now going to) ask, if Decal automatically installs something from insanity.org and it isn't "a problem", then why does it point back to a domain name this is "questionable in name" instead of the "official Decal" website.

isn't insane-org the ole insane-bot buffer run by merkle (spelling??) one of the major decal developers?

 

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