CreateObject internet access

[NickP]

Hi there,

I was wondering if there was any way to stop "CreateObject" from accessing
"131.107.115.28" when called? Unfortunately it is raising a warning with
Norton Personal Firewall and seems dubious.

Any ideas on how to get around this one? Thanks in advance.

Nick.

 

[Andrew Morton]

I was wondering if there was any way to stop "CreateObject" from
accessing "131.107.115.28" when called? Unfortunately it is raising
a warning with Norton Personal Firewall and seems dubious.

Any ideas on how to get around this one? Thanks in advance.

131.107.115.28 appears to be crl.microsoft.com[1] which I guess is a
certificate revocation list. Dubious[2], no, but what sort of object are you
creating that would persuade it to look at such a list?

[1] From using the ipwhois lookip at www.samspade.org.
[2] Unless you meant NPF is dubious.

Andrew

 

[Simon Verona]

this ip address is crl.microsoft.com which is microsoft's "Certification
Revocation List" server used by Windows Media Player... You don't say what
object you are creating, but I suggest it's using WMP which periodically
communicates to this ip address. I don't think you can stop it!

Regards
Simon

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[NickP]

I'm creating "PowerPoint.Application"...

I was wondering if there was any way to stop "CreateObject" from
accessing "131.107.115.28" when called? Unfortunately it is raising
a warning with Norton Personal Firewall and seems dubious.

Any ideas on how to get around this one? Thanks in advance.

131.107.115.28 appears to be crl.microsoft.com[1] which I guess is a
certificate revocation list. Dubious[2], no, but what sort of object are
you creating that would persuade it to look at such a list?

[1] From using the ipwhois lookip at www.samspade.org.
[2] Unless you meant NPF is dubious.

Andrew

 

[NickP]

I'm creating "PowerPoint.Application"...

Please tell me it can be stopped! :-( Otherwise surely any other app that
uses OLE automation with PowerPoint would do the same surely? As well as
Word, Excel etc..?

Nick.

 

[Andrew Morton]

I was wondering if there was any way to stop "CreateObject" from
accessing "131.107.115.28" when called? Unfortunately it is raising
a warning with Norton Personal Firewall and seems dubious.

Any ideas on how to get around this one? Thanks in advance.

131.107.115.28 appears to be crl.microsoft.com[1] which I guess is a
certificate revocation list. Dubious[2], no, but what sort of object
are you creating that would persuade it to look at such a list?

[1] From using the ipwhois lookip at www.samspade.org.
[2] Unless you meant NPF is dubious.

Andrew

I'm creating "PowerPoint.Application"...

So NPF is the dubious part. Can't you tell it to shut up or that
crl.microsoft.com is OK?

(Also, if you get the free OE-QuoteFix from
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ then you can automatically
use the bottom-posting newsgroup convention.)

Andrew

 

[NickP]

Hi Andrew,

So NPF is the dubious part. Can't you tell it to shut up or that
crl.microsoft.com is OK?

Unfortunately not, this would be down to the user. It should be okay by
default any maybe in some newer versions of Norton it is, but with the
version I am testing on it isn't which is really unfortunately.

(Also, if you get the free OE-QuoteFix from
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ then you can
automatically use the bottom-posting newsgroup convention.)

I've installed it, but not quite sure what it's supposed to be doing
exactly, mainly because I don't have time to read the info.

Cheers for your help anyway, I guess I will have to blame NPF! Damn and
blast.

Nick.

 

[Jeff Dillon]

I'm confused. Simply "don't do that"?

Why are you concerned? Seems like a valid invocation

Jeff

 

[NickP]

Hi Jeff,

I don't think it is valid at all to be honest with you. Try rolling an
application out to thousands of people that will display a filewall warning
at a really obscure moment. It's not advisable to attempt to access the
internet unless you have warned the user first, it increases trust with the
user, but telling them it needs to access the internet to validate part of
windows seems a bit bizaar. I can't "not" create the object as it is
essential for COM automation with PowerPoint whilst avoiding using the .NET
side of control.

If the user has a firewall that is aware of the issue then no problem
exists for them, but you can never tell what firewall the user will have, if
any of course. I was hoping that the check could be bypassed in some way,
maybe not then.

Nick.

 

[Jeff Dillon]

I prefer top posting. I've already read the OP, and just need the reply. Why
scroll?

Jeff

NickP wrote:
I was wondering if there was any way to stop "CreateObject" from
accessing "131.107.115.28" when called? Unfortunately it is raising
a warning with Norton Personal Firewall and seems dubious.

Any ideas on how to get around this one? Thanks in advance.

131.107.115.28 appears to be crl.microsoft.com[1] which I guess is a
certificate revocation list. Dubious[2], no, but what sort of object
are you creating that would persuade it to look at such a list?

[1] From using the ipwhois lookip at www.samspade.org.
[2] Unless you meant NPF is dubious.

Andrew

I'm creating "PowerPoint.Application"...

So NPF is the dubious part. Can't you tell it to shut up or that
crl.microsoft.com is OK?

(Also, if you get the free OE-QuoteFix from
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ then you can
automatically use the bottom-posting newsgroup convention.)

Andrew

 

[NickP]

Jeff,

I prefer top posting. I've already read the OP, and just need the reply.
Why scroll?

That's nice, well I would prefer it if you didn't bang on about it.
Thanks.

Nick.