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I've had my Windows XP autoupdate downloading a critical patch every single day for the past week or so. I install the patch and the very next day it downloads again. I'm not 100% certain it's the same patch, but I'm pretty sure it is.
So I've come up with two possiblities.
1. I've got a virus that keeps erasing files from the critical patch, forcing it to re-downlad every day.
2. The critical patch is actually a virus, which re-downloads itself after the virus is removed by my scanner everyday.
I've scanned for viruses several times with the latest dat files and everything appears to be clean. So what's going on?
I also keep getting emails from system admins around the world saying my email was blocked because it contained unsafe attachments. The attachment is listed, but not contained in the email. These are all emails I haven't sent, to the best of my knowledge. They're to people and companies that aren't even in my address book. I can only assume it's someone I know who's got a virus on their machine that is sending itself out with my name on it, from their address book.
Any thoughts on these two issues would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Kevin Ranville
"Go to, I’ll no more on’t; it hath made me mad." - Hamlet
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For a while, I got some emails from sysadmins saying my email was blocked. I traced it to my use of my un-obscured email address in some MS newsgroups.
One of the worms, I cannot recall which, was in the habit of harvesting email addresses from those newsgroups, and then using them in its emails. Quite nasty.
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Kevnar wrote:
I've had my Windows XP autoupdate downloading a critical patch every single day for the past week or so. I install the patch and the very next day it downloads again. I'm not 100% certain it's the same patch, but I'm pretty sure it is.
I had a similar problem once. Check for the next couple of days to see if it is the same patch. Find the Knowledge Base article related to it (KB999999 number will be in the title), go to the Knowledge Base and download the patch. Manually install it and the problem should be resolved.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So i had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote:
go to the Knowledge Base and download the patch. Manually install it and the problem should be resolved.
Okay, it turns out it is the same patch everyday. KB835732. I installed it manually from microsoft.com, but it's still downloading itself everyday.
Perhaps I need a better virus scanner, or maybe a better firewall.
"Go to, I’ll no more on’t; it hath made me mad." - Hamlet
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If you have a Norton Antivirus 2003/2004 software, try
updating the virus definitions. Norton Antivirus will
detect any new viruses or the virus that keeps on re-download the same patch. If you don't have this software,
I suggest you purchase it. Better than any virus scanners.
I also had encountered the same problem as you. But with Norton Antivirus(updated Virus Definitions) , it automatically detected and cleared the annoying virus which keep repeatedly download the same patch.
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My son's computer runs XP Home and has corrupted the SYSTEM registry so it won't boot.
For reasons I won't detail I can't use the files from Windows\repair as described in KB article 307545.
What I want to know is: if I do a reinstall over the existing system will I subsequently be able to recover the backed-up registry files as described in Parts Two and Three of that article?
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
The opinions expressed in this communication do not necessarily represent those of the author (especially if you find them impolite, discourteous or inflammatory).
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I really dont know under which category this post should belong...My apologies....
As a company's intern, I was asked to research on this to see if I can do it. Basically, I am suppose to find a way for the network adminstrator to detect ALL printers connected to client machines and store the info (client machine name, printer model, etc) in a database. This includes all USB and parallel printers.
I'm not really sure how to do this. My boss suggests using a "logon script" that automatically detect printers when logging on. For instance, when a Windows user logs on to the domain, some script should try to detect all locally connected printers on the client's machine and report that back to the central database.
So my question is "Is this possible?". And if so, what programming/scripting language should I use? Perl, PHP, etc? Can I even do this using a .NET language?
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I think it depends on the client machines and the exact requirements. The API of EnumPrinters and EnumPrinterConnections will be of use to you. YOu can use them to enumerate printers on remote clients - so in theory it could all be done from one machine (although you'd need administrator rights to log into the remote machines and do it.)
On a domain, in theory you could query the domain for all machines currently connected (not sure if this is possible or how to do it... but it seems possible), then for each machine, call EnumPrinters and EnumPrinterConnections to get all the printers.
The logon script idea would probably work, too, assuming you have a way of getting that information back to the central database or wherever.
As for what language to use... probably straight Win32 C or C++ would be your best bet, since most of this will be calling Windows APIs.
Sometimes I feel like I'm a USB printer in a parallel universe.
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We recently upgraded our network from an Exchange 2000 installation to an Exchange 2003 installation. This was done as a migration, not an upgrade. Exchange 2003 was installed on a brand new server, installed on to the network, mailboxes were migrated to it, then the original Exchange 2000 box was de-commisioned.
For some reason, when viewing posts in the public folders, the 'From' field of all posts seem to be lost.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Kyosa Jamie Nordmeyer - Cho Dan
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Hi all,
I need help with an application being executing on a remote disk that "disappear" when I disable the Network Connection...
The same application tested with the debugger give back the error "0xC0000006: In Page Error.".
In the MSDN I've found the article Q172530 (Deleted UNC Connection While In Use Causes an In-Page Error") and as far as I understood the problem here is in the redirector... but this problem shoudln't have already been fixed on NT 3.51???
I think I'm close to the solution, but I would really appreciate some help or workaround.
I'm running on W2K Professional SP4.
Thanx guys,
Fabio
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Windows loads your program into RAM lazily, on-demand. When it loses the connection to the network drive, and your application tries to load a page that wasn't already in RAM, Windows has no choice but to throw an exception. Note that Windows also discards pages that haven't been touched recently if you're above your minimum working set size.
To force an image launched from across the network to be loaded into RAM before being executed, pass the /SWAPRUN:NET option to the linker. You can also add it to an existing binary using editbin.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Guys, thanx for your precious help!
Rgds,
Fabio
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Anyone as ideas on how to develop an aplication that block all tcp/ip ports with exceptions for particular ports, on a w2k or Xp system.
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Has anyone here seen a problem where if you set a port of a Cisco 355o switch to only communicate at 100Mb Full-duplex that it will not allow NICs attached to it that are set to Auto-negitiate to actualy run at 100Mb Full-duplex? It seems like setting the port staticly shuts off it's ability to negotiate.
Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the a**hole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
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Our domain controller (singular, whitebox) died this morning.
Any idea how long our cached logons (Windows XP) will keep working?
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Hi all,
What is the right procedure to shift a 32-bit application to
64-bit supported application? I would like to change the source
code as little as possible.
Thank you
David
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Note: I'm assuming that you mean that you want to produce a native 64-bit executable. Most programs compiled for 32-bit Windows will run fine on 64-bit (IA64 and AMD64) systems, because these systems can run 32-bit x86 programs natively.
Get a recent version of the Microsoft 32-bit compiler (that supplied with VS.NET 2002 or 2003 is fine, or download the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003[^]). Compile with /wp64. This will flag up most issues that will cause problems in 64-bit mode. You may need to get the latest Platform SDK[^] to get the full benefit.
Generally it's a case of finding anywhere you've assumed that a pointer will be 32 bits in size and modifying it to use a 64-bit data type instead.
For more information, see Introducing 64-bit Windows[^] in the Platform SDK documentation.
In order to actually produce a 64-bit executable, you'll need the 64-bit version of the compiler. There is no commercially available 64-bit compiler from Microsoft as yet; you can obtain the latest compiler builds as part of the Driver Development Kit[^].
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Yes,I would like to build native 64-bit application.
Your help is very useful. 
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Now that I've had a couple of days at the new job, the structure of the network is becoming clear. Upstairs we have a NT server with a few clients, all dedicated to accounting and sales of watercraft and motorcycles, configured as a workgroup. Downstairs we have a workgroup with its own NT server running software for selling parts. I'm told that the reason the two are kept apart is to isolate the two software types, and I have yet to figure out why anyone would pay the price of NT Server (twice) and not configure a domain. The two networks have no connection between them.
Yesterday they asked if I could connect the two so that the downstairs group can share the DSL Internet connection used upstairs. I've never heard of anyone running two separate workgroups on one physical network, but theoretically it should work fine using just a couple of hubs. Hubs don't care what subnet they're on, or what traffic they carry. For efficiency's sake, though, I'd prefer to use a switch or router between them to localize the collision domains, and I'm not too certain about setting the downstairs clients to use a default gateway on a different subnet. My own server was orginally set up that way, and Windows whined about it, but it worked. I'm not certain that NT is smart enough to use such a setup.
Any thoughts or advice?
Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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Just a thought... [Assuming the NT server is acting as a NAT router] couldn't you just install an additional NIC and run two seperate NAT networks? It would seperate the two networks while letting them both connect to the outside world.
Matt Newman
All rise for the honorable Judge Stone Cold Steve Austin - From Dilbert Episode 30
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I'm leaning toward convincing them to reconfigure as a regular domain with a PDC and a BDC. We can host one app on each server, and limit access to those who need it for each. As a side benefit, I may be able to get NT to back up data from each app to the other server each night, if I can get NT to recognize the other hard drive as a backup device. That's better than their current setup - no backups at all. They're concerned about the two programs interfering with each other, and I'm having a hard time explaining that this isn't likely in any case. The client software for each would only be installed on hosts that have legitimate access, and the db folders would have permissions that exclude everyone who shouldn't be messing around in them. It seems simple to me, but I know from past experience that nothing is simple with WinNT.
Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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Why the need for two different subnets? If the DSL modem/router has a built in DHCP server like mine does let it do the handing out of IP Addresses. That way the modem/router will hand over DNS server and Default Gatewy settings keeping it constant accross the site. While each NT Server and associated clients can just use their Workgroup to keep to themselves.
If the DSL modem/router doesn't handle DHCP (or your worried that since the hardware DHCP doesn't support WINS and therefore pinging by name becomes a pain in the arse without using the Host file) use the two NT boxes to run a DHCP server each in the same subnet but with a different range. That way there will be no problems or conflicts with the default gateway.
Hope that all makes sense 02:25 here and I should be getting to bed.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I suspect I will be impressed though, I am easy."
- Paul Watson 21/09/2003
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Any luck with this?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So i had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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I actually haven't tried. I've been working more on convincing them to use the tools they have properly, and I think I'm getting through. What they have is two virtually unused WinNT Server systems on separate P-to-P networks acting as simple file servers - Win98 could have provided that much functionality. But if I connect the two together to share a DSL connection, it makes sense to promote the two servers to domain controllers - one primary and one backup - then join all the client into a single domain. They've mentioned that they want to upgrade to Win2K as soon as possible, so this would be a reasonable step toward that migration.
In the meantime I've been spelunking. Since they've never been open on Sundays and Mondays before, and I'm the only one there on those days, I have lots of time to explore. The whole system is written in PAL (Paradox Application Language) it seems; I can't find any evidence of a VB file on the drives, and exes are really rare. It may be possible for me to write some PAL scripts that will simplify life a little, like being able to change batches of records instead of using the built in one-at-a-time procedures it comes with. But I may find other goodies - the boss told the lady that controls the system to give me admin access today, but I have yet to explore the many new functions I should now get to play with.
Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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Hi
I got a problem when the Daylight saving changes apply here in México, the XP systems don't update the hour change, and if we fix the time, after a few minutes changes again to the wrong time. In my personal PC, I fix this problem in a tab page into Date & Time Applet where allow sync the local with a server, disabling this I fix the problem. But here in my company, this tab page "disappear".
Someone know who change this, cuz all our systems in XP works with one hour before.
Thanks
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