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Re: [Openvpn-users] Re: Microsoft Logo Warning


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Re: Microsoft Logo Warning
  • From: Anssi Kolehmainen <akolehma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:16:42 +0200 (EET)

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Charles Duffy wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:46:51 +0530, satinders wrote:
When I install openvpn on windows XP or 2000 prof, windows flags a warning
message saying that the adapter you are installing is not certified from
Microsoft.

What is this all about?

Any installation of a driver not digitally signed by Microsoft does that.

Can I hide or suppress this warning message? Or can I customize this warning
message?
Nope.

Yes you can. In XP there is an option to turn off completely those 'invalid signature' warnings. Just go to System Properties/Hardware/Driver Signing and select Ignore. Bad thing is that this turns it off for every driver and then bad unsigned drivers can go unnoticed.


I have heard that the any new device/driver installed on windows needs to
have WHQL certificate from Microsoft.
Is there any plan to get this certificate for TUN/TAP adapter?

You want to pay for it? IIRC, the cost is about $3K (presuming it passes on the first round of testing, more otherwise) -- and it'll need to be paid again if the driver is ever changed. I'm not putting up that money, and we can't reasonably ask James to either.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/whql/default.mspx

There you can find some fees:
 $250 per operating system (XP, 2K, Me)
 $2000 first time submission
 $400 Verisign digital certificate

And then for every new version of the driver at least those $250 per OS fees must be paid.

Anssi Kolehmainen

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