[dba-Tech] WIndows update aarrrggh

This is a commong issue when you have hotbars and other spyware software
installed.
 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Kath Pelletti [mailto:sdssoftware at optusnet.com.au] 
	Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 6:41 AM
	To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
	Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] WIndows update aarrrggh
	
	
	Hi Jon. Thanks for that. About half an hour after sending that
message I shut down the PC and it has taken me 2 days to get back
online. I took advantage of the disaster (couldn;t start Windows at all)
to upgrade to Win XP Pro and now I'm back online.
	 
	Thanks for the tip anyway.
	Kath

		----- Original Message ----- 
		From: Jon Tydda <mailto:Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk>  
		To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
<mailto:dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>  
		Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:07 PM
		Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] WIndows update aarrrggh

		Kath
		 
		I don't think you can reinstall patches from the windows
update site, but if you go to www.microsoft.com/downloads there is a
catalogue list of ALL the patches they've ever produced.
		 
		I downloaded SP4 in it's entirety and stored it on my
server so that I could patch all the pc's here without using all my
bandwidth. I'd say a reinstall of sp4 was in order.
		 
		 
		Jon
		-----Original Message-----
		From: Software Design & Solutions Pty Ltd.
[mailto:SDSSoftware at optusnet.com.au]
		Sent: 14 August 2003 04:46
		To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
		Subject: [dba-Tech] WIndows update aarrrggh
		
		
		Just sharing some frustration....today to make sure that
I could avoid this new worm which I had not been infected with yet, I
went to the site MS has advertised and let MS 'review' my Win 2K Pro
version and recommend updates. It then showed alist of updates I could
make and after reading through the first one (re: the scurity hole) I
went ahead and installed it.
		 
		I now cannot do all kinds of things, eg. I can;t open a
pdf file with Acrobat reader ('Acrobat has generted errors...') and when
I tried to just reinstall Acrobat Reader I get errors telling me that
the Windows installer file is corrupt and that the installation cannot
proceed. I am also having quirky problems in IE - none of which I was
having before going near the MS site. 
		 
		If I go back to the MS site and try to re-install that
patch or any other it throws and error and chucks me out.
		 
		I am now faced with reinstalling
Windows............sigh. 
		 
		Kath Pelletti
		Software Design & Solutions Pty Ltd.
		Ph: 9505-6714
		Fax: 9505-6430
		SDSSoftware at Optusnet.com.au



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