Error message "Revocation information for the security certificate for this site is not available. Do you want to proceed? [Yes] [No] [View certificate]

I have had this problem, it drove me nuts !  I solved it and sent the solution on to my family and friends:

Are any of you getting,  "Revocation Certificate for this site is not available"  and then you have to tick  'yes',  'no'  'view certificate'  ???

It slows everything down to a crawl and is  annoying especially if you use a site regularly and you know it's safe.

Here's what you do:  'start'   'control panel'   'internet options'

move from 'general'  to  'advanced'   scroll down and down and down until you see a gold-coloured lock in the 'security' section.

UNTICK     'Check For Publisher's Revocation'    then click  'Apply'  and  OK.

It's worked for me here and it's so much quicker on newspaper sites.

Or you can click on your advanced settings tab which is in your internet options folder which is found in your control panel.  Scroll down the list until you see the security section, then un-tick the boxes which say "check for publishers revocation certification" and the next one underneath which says "check for server revocation certification". You will find that this will stop the problem.

Actually I have admin rights and I still get the pop-up.

Well I found that unchecking the other revocation box, called "Check for publisher's certificate revocation," made it so that the systems on my network having this problem were able to run my script using the Java MSI and not have this message pop-up.

Unfortunately, this second revocation check box isn't listed in Group Policy as an option to Enable or Disable. I found through google searches and trial and error that this registry setting turns both of the certificate revocation checks off in IE7.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WinTrust\Trust Providers\Software Publishing]

"State"=dword:00023e00

If you'd like to try this Richard, copy the text that I've included above between the two lines (not including the lines) and paste it into a text file using notepad for example, saving the extension as .reg instead of .txt. Then, run this registry file to add this configuration to your registry turning off these two revocation checks. You can then verify in IE/Tools/Internet Options/Advanced that both of these boxes have been unchecked. (or simply uncheck them both yourself)

Because this is configured in the User configuration, those who'd want to apply this through GPO would need to put this on the User Configuration side, or have this added through a Login script.

Good luck.