Akamai certificates?

Sasso · 24 Dec 2010 at 00:37

hey all. today on both my laptop and my pc every now and then i get this pop up asking if i want to install a certificate from akamai.....

now i've never heard of these people before and the fact its started on 2 systems has gotten me a bit worried...

who are they? what do they want? can they be trusted?

edit: seems to be connected to windows live messenger.

security alert

the identity of this web site or the integrity of this connection cannot be verified.

the security certificate is from a trusted certifying authority.

the security certificate date is valid.

! the name on the security certificate is invalid or does not mate the name of the site.

do you want to proceed?
yes-no-view certificate

BloodyL · 24 Dec 2010 at 02:46

Akamai is a content distribution network, many of the big companies use it for download management.
Not sure about the certificates though.

Destination · 24 Dec 2010 at 04:07

Got this earlier as well, didn't know if it was steam, msn or OcUK related, they were the only 3 things I had open.
I said no.

Mr-White · 24 Dec 2010 at 07:45

I got this too, I didn't recognise the certificate name so clicked no

MW

Sasso · 25 Dec 2010 at 00:25

yea i kept clicking no every time i saw it.... i did notice on my main pc (not now as im on laptop with 56k dial up o.O) that when i clicked no the advert in the bottom of the msn window turned into an "x"... so maybe it was that.. but dont understand why an advery would need a cert.... dodgy stuff

Phatjayunoi · 25 Dec 2010 at 03:11

Yeah I seem to get this every now and then popping up whenever Windows Live Messenger (The current version) is running, and click No everytime.

djkav · 26 Dec 2010 at 09:28

I have the same problem and I found this...

Spyblocking software will generate a new hosts-file and add urls which will
subsequently be ignored (blocked: re-directed to 127.0.0.1, one's own PC)

Since Microsoft moved the Update website to a248.e.akamai.net go into
C:\Windows, find the hosts-file and put a #-mark in front of the line that has
a248.e.akamai.net in it.