Mandatory FSUIPC Update

[Bobby 0]

Got an email alert from Simmarket that FSUIPC needed to be updated. I have a registered copy so that's why I got the notice. I checked with Pete Dowson's site just in case it was a spoofed email and Pete verifies that it is mandatory and valid. Here is the link to Pete: http://forum.simflight.com/topic/74355-fsuipc-will-need-replacing-on-all-user-systems/

 

FSUIPC will need replacing on all user systems!


For the last ten years FSUIPC has been protected against both unwanted alteration and virus infection by the use of a Code Signature, purchased from and protected by GlobalSign, an officially recognised Windows Certificate Authority.

It has come to my attention that within the last two weeks the same Code Signature has been used to sign malicious software, apparently in the form of Java updates, to make it look valid and safe. Whilst the FSUIPC packages themselves are not affected in any way by these, it does mean that we have had to ask GlobalSign to revoke the signature. This in turn will cause the signature to appear incorrect, and because FSUIPC actively checks it every time it is started the end result is that all versions of FSUIPC3 and FSUIPC4 before today's date will cease to function.

After due consideration it has been decided that we will dispense with Code Signing henceforth, and over the next few days unsigned versions of all of my programs will be released, replacing the signed versions and with incremented version numbers, but with no other changes.

Because only FSUIPC has the Signature self-checking built in, it is the main priority, and versions 4.90 and 3.999z2 have been released today free of this check. All users will need to update for continued use of the program, and software producers who include FSUIPC in their packages are asked to update those as soon as is convenient and practical.

Apologies to all for this unprecedented event. We still don't know how the break in the signature's security occurred but we will be following this up with GlobalSign.

Best Regards
Pete          

 

[brett 2,316]

Thanks Bobby.   Another on-site thread started on this subject, with reply's, can also be found here.

[Bobby 0]

Thanks Brett,

 

I should have looked at the rest of Mutley's site and, after today, I'll go out and explore it.

 

Since I became a genuine card carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Air Hauler Addiction Specialists, I only check into this forum anymore LOL

[brett 2,316]

Just in case.....

 

 

[Gunner 69]

Lol, good to know there is a place like that.

[Quickmarch 488]

Sign me up

[allardjd 1,853]

I'm in an outpatient Plus-plan. Whenever I begin to twitch I go in for a quick fix - one low price. I'm trying to get an exclusive contract for delivering their "medical supplies".

John

[Captain Caveman 0]

I'm trying to get an

exclusive contract for delivering their

"medical supplies".

John. - Is that so you can beat the queue for your meds? Haha. Glen

[brett 2,316]

There are no medical supplies, they tie you to a chair and make you watch your chosen jobs expire, over and over again, until you stop sweating.