Re: windows has blocked this software becase it can't verify the publi
- From: "VanguardLH" <VanguardLH@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 21:08:10 -0500
"Gavilu" wrote in message news:69399CF1-2238-43F7-A531-B0CDF85DE872@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have IE7. Windows XP home edition SP2.
Every time I try to run the FastAccess DSL Speed Optimization Tool
http://www.fastaccess.drivers.bellsouth.net/software/DSLspeedtool/systemcheckresult.html
it comes a pop up window to install ActiveX when I go ahead and install
Active X comes another pop up window saying "windows has blocked this
software becuse it can't verify the publisher. Is there a new version of
the FastAccess DSL Speed Optimization Tool?
They used a certificate to digitally sign their software but the cert is for a different domain from where they have you download their software or the cert has expired or is no longer valid. You'll need to tell the software vendor to resign their software with a valid certificate, or ignore the warning and proceed with the install for an invalidly signed program (you'll need to check your security options to see "download unsigned Activex" is set to Disabled or Prompt).
So just what do you think this optimization software will do for you? The default packet size in Windows should match what the ISP is using. Most likely this is crapware that pretends to speed up your bandwidth because it only partially downloads any image files in the HTML page. Text-only web pages won't be sped up. Web pages with graphics may download faster because ... drum roll ... only some of the image gets download which also means for crappy looking images. The software did nothing to change the actual bandwidth. It just reduced how much of an image got yanked which obviously only helps on graphic-intensive web pages to reduce their quality. So why bother downloading the images at all if they are unimportant (some are image maps on which you need to click but usually they are fluff). With the old IE "Toggle Images" powertoy, you could change IE on-the-fly as to whether or not it would pull image files listed in web page. Downloading only text goes very fast. Won't work if the web site is using Flash for all its content (which is streamed image data with scripting).
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