Wierd IE issues (WinXP) - potential trojan - fix ideas?
Posted: January 26, 2004, 11:59 am
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
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