right click delay

[Antonin]

I am running Windows XP SP. When I right click the mouse or click on the
Office tool bar, there is a several seconds delay and network connection
icon is flashing. I ran a network monitor and found out that the PC makes or
tries to make a connection to 64.94.110.11. Nslookup returns
crl.verisign.com for this IP.

Is there a way to prevent this from happening? It is very annoying and
slowing me down.

Antonin

I posted this message on the microsoft.public.windows.general as well. I was
not sure what is the correct newsgroup. Sorry for cross-posting.

I had the time on my notebook 9.5 hours behind still from my trip to Europe,
so I am posting it again to with the correct time now.

 

[Guest]

To prevent access to the network/internet to these apps, have your firewall
to block them access. This will probably solve the delay problem.
I dont know if you can manage program access to the network indivually with
the Windows Firewall...

 

[Antonin]

Thanks for your reply.

Antonin

To prevent access to the network/internet to these apps, have your
firewall
to block them access. This will probably solve the delay problem.
I dont know if you can manage program access to the network indivually
with
the Windows Firewall...

 

[PsyB]

Another method is to place crl.verisign.net and crl.verisign.com in your
hosts files pointing them to 127.0.0.1 - Norton seems to cause this
problem when it tries to verify it's signature, and verisign has noticed
an insane amount of traffic on http. This will block ALL programs access
to crl.verisign.net and .com not only the ones you manually enforce. To
use the hosts method do this:

Open (Making sure it is NOT set read only)
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts using Notepad or another plain
text editor.

Add these fields:

127.0.0.1 crl.verisign.net
127.0.0.1 crl.verisign.com

Note that following 127.0.0.1 is a TAB, but any form of whitespace is OK.
Save the file.
Right click the file and set the Read Only option.
Done. No more hesitation.
-=[PsyB]=-