Tribes Vengeance and Connecting to:

Microsoft? why and what is crl.microsoft.com ?

http://www.razzor.net/pchelp/tvandmicrosoft.jpg

Maybe i am confused to what this does, please enlighten me....

c-o-n-spiracy.

Certificate Revocation List; T:V is likely using some sort of SSL certificate to communicate with someone, probably the update server.