TorqueDemo trying to connect Microsoft

#1 CRL = Certificate Revocation List. Part of MSoft's code signing stuff. Torque Demo uses the IE controls to allow an integrated browser, so you'll probably see browsery behaviour seemingly coming out of it.

#2 Ok, thanks. Am a little surprised to see this suddenly pop up when I 've been running TGE for a year, at least. I made a firewall rule for it.

#3 We don't actually use IE for anything in Torque that I'm aware of. We do spawn it from the demo app to bring up the purchase/product page, but it's running as its own thing (should be the same behavior as typing the URL into the run box).

But it could be some secure component checking for the CRL. Or maybe even a virus or something? Torque itself has no explicit code to trigger this behavior.

#4 Ah! Ben's right, Torque just triggers your default browser, so any CRL connections would appear to come from iexplore.exe or whatever.

BUT... I just remembered, if you have any Microsoft-signed DirectX drivers, DirectX9 will connect to crl.microsoft.com to check for an expiration on the certficate that declares the drivers authentic. And that connection would appear to come from your executable.

You can turn the 'feature' off through IE, by going into tools... internet options... advanced tab... security section... uncheck 'check for publisher's certificate revocation' and 'check for server's certificate revocation'. You'll probably have to restart.

I doubt it is a virus/spyware thingy, but checking that angle wouldn't hurt.

#5 Hmm, that could be reasonable. It would be neat if someone could do some more research on this.