Forums Connection Issues Why is mirc.exe connecting to verisign?

Tonight, I was alerted by my firewall to an unexpected
connection attempt.

mIRC was attempting to connect on port 80 to 199.7.71.190,
which appears to belong to Verisign.

I thought at first that this might have been an update
check. However, I don't have automatic updates checked,
and a manual attempt at checking for updates does not
produce any firewall alert. I was on a normal connection
and not using SSL.

Anybody else seeing this behavior?

Regards;

Thomas