Downloading and Running CertAlert

On this page we describe how to download and run CertAlert for the first time. If you have any questions at all about running CertAlert please email [email protected] and we will get CertAlert up and running for you in no time.

Step 0: Request a trial version of CertAlert

Visit our request form to get your free trial of CertAlert. Simply provide your name and business email, and we'll send you download instructions.

Step 1: Unzip the file you downloaded

Unzip the downloaded file into its own folder. The easiest way to do this is to right-click on the file and then choose Extract All...

Step 2: Open a command window in the folder you extracted CertAlert to

From Windows Explorer, move your cursor over the target folder (e.g., certalert-2017-04-11), then shift-right-click and pick the “open command window here” option from the pop-up

Step 3: Run CertAlert

What Next?

You can try many things, here are just a few in no particular order:

• Look at the reports created CertAlertReport.csv and CertAlertReport.pdf
• Change the servers to be checked in the serverlist.txt file
• Set an IP range to check in the CertAlert.dll.config file