Hey.
On my PC at home i've been having increasingly quirky behavior with IE.
Windows update fails to download and install updates because of what it calls a date/time error. My date/time are set correctly. Perhaps there is another problem with the SSL certificates, that it misinterprets as the date/time error. ( i can't find the scrap of paper i wrote the error code on...will later)
2-3 weeks ago Norton did find a trojan (again cant find the exe file) and quarantined it. I did some looking around for stuff about the particular one, and there werent any additional necessary (ie: regedit-ing) that i saw. But maybe this fucked some stuff up that hasnt been repaired.
A couple other errors that may shed light on the IE problem.
When posting to VV (or sovereignguild.org) from home, i'd say 40% of the time, IE will not do shit when i click submit. It will just act like it is loading the next page/script and nothing ever happens.
When checking my work email from home, which uses a web-based java client, i can't send emails that have attachments.
So basically, i have some quirky problems that are getting increasingly annoying. There is the trojan in the near past that is quite possibly the culprit.
My question really gets to a few things.
In Windows XP can you remove and reinstall IE? Would that make sense in this situation?
are there other deaper Windows issues that could be the problem here?
Thanks
Wierd IE issues (WinXP) - potential trojan - fix ideas?
Part of it perhaps...
Joe Dance wrote:
> I have recently installed five new desktop computers. On two of the
> five systems, Windows Update is not working.
I believe this is due to a Microsoft certificate expiring on 07-Jan-03. On the machine I experienced the problem on (Win2k Advanced Server SP3) I was able to resolve it by downloading the iuident.cab file manually (on an XP machine), exporting the signing certificate from the cab, then reimporting it on the server. The steps I took:
Find iuident.cab, probably in C:\Program Files\WindowsUpdate\V4 Right-click, properties Digital Signatures tab Select cert, then Details button Details tab Copy to File... button
Wizard: Next
Select P7B, check "Include all...", then Next Give it a file name, then Next, then Finish.
Copy that file to your broken machine, and double-click to install.
Note that the expired cert also caused other problems; my server was an OWA front-end, the initial symptom was clients getting a message that our SSL cert had expired when it hadn't. It also only happened on one of two supposedly identical machines