IanP

Unfortunately the title of this thread is misleading and is exactly the type of hyperbole we were trying to avoid yesterday when Pete published his release. I just chose not to make a big deal of it when posting yesterday, because we don't actually know exactly when it will stop working - that is machine specific. Earlier versions of FSUIPC will stop working the first time your PC updates certificates after the one assigned to FSUIPC is revoked. It will, however, definitely stop working because of the way Pete encoded the dll. You will definitely need to download the new version if you want FSUIPC to keep working!

You are correct in the questions but, as per his announcement, Pete is currently in discussion with GlobalSign about exactly what happened, so I won't speculate without all the facts. Cheers, Ian P.

Sorry, tf51d, I misunderstood you. I would presume that yes, it could potentially affect other developers too. You don't hear about valid certificates being misappropriated very often, but it does happen. dcgator29: Just run the new installer over your old installation - it doesn't overwrite your .ini file, where all the settings are stored and if you just "check registrations" at the end, it will just confirm that your current ones are valid and end. If you want to take a backup before doing so, the .ini and .key files are the ones you want to keep a copy of. Cheers, Ian P.

Will they be affected: Yes. They should (but probably won't) update their installers. They all use the same dll files, though, so if you install the new versions using the 3.999z2 or 4.90 installers, you have fixed the problem for everything at the same time. When you use an FSUIPC installer, that checks and will only overwrite the dll if the installed version is older than the one being installed - for instance, if you install 4.90 today and then install the Blackbox Airbus Prologue packs, the version of FSUIPC in the current versions of the BBS packs are older, so will not overwrite 4.90. If the package just copies the dll file in, however (which they shouldn't!) then that could be an issue. That's always been the case, though, unfortunately. Cheers, ian P.

When it becomes invalid depends on exactly when GlobalSign invalidate the certificate and when your PC updates its certificate lists - it may be hours, it may be days - no-one exactly knows. What will happen when it does though is that existing copies of FSUIPC will only be capable of logging, nothing else, according to Pete, so it's definitely worth updating before it happens. Cheers, Ian P.