Re: Crashes when clock year is five digit
- From: "Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers" <rick@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 06:53:34 -0500
Hi,
I'm unable to duplicate that, as I can find no way to force the year field
to accept 5 characters. I've not seen any other complaints of this nature,
so I doubt it is related to any recent updates. It is possible that you have
a corrupt system file that allowed that format, so the only thing I might
recommend is that you run sfc /scannow and allow this tool to check the
integrity of the system file set.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"maxfloden" <maxfloden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9864BA28-ACD4-4E94-B151-06A56B7DADE5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I just thought I'd share this very strange error I just recovered from.
>Maybe
> this will help someone else and maybe this is something that needs to be
> fixed by Microsoft - at least to me it seems like this could be a
> potential
> voulnerability? Or maybe it's already a known issue even though I couldn't
> find anything about it.
>
> After applying the Microsoft December update (I'm using WinXP SP2) I
> started
> getting all kinds of strange errors, some examples:
> - Grisoft AVG antivirus would crash on startup and give me error message
> and
> a error dump stating Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
> - Skype would crash on startup.
> - Sun Java update process would crash on stratup.
> - Running Ad-Aware could not start properly and/or download updates.
> - Running Microsoft and/or Windows update just gave an error message
> saying
> basically "there is something wrong with the web server right now, cannot
> run, check back later"
> - World Community Grid wouldn't start
> - I couldn't log on to some forums I frequently visit, my guess was that
> cookies were somehow being blocked. After awhile I found out that it
> didn't
> work in IE but Firefox was ok.
>
> Naturally I thought I had gotten some kind of virus. Since I couldn't get
> my
> own Antivirus to work I went to Trend Micro's online scan ("HouseCall").
> Using their "browser kernel" (active-x?) did not work at all, using the
> "java
> kernel" did a 1 second scan of my entire computer! (ie it did not scan it
> at
> all) and came back saying my computer is ok.
>
> I restarted in safe mode, did chkdsk, defrag, removed page file, searching
> the net for a solution etc. etc. and spent many hours last night trying to
> get a grip on this.
>
> Then just now I surfed a page in Firefox and got a certificate warning
> where
> I notice my date is 18 December 40105. Year 40105 - What?? (give or take a
> few hundred years, it's a five digit year, everything except the year is
> correct) I double click my clock to correct it using "Update time" from
> the
> "Internet time" tab but I get a time out error so after a few attempts I
> set
> the year manually and --- everything starts working ok again!! (at least
> so
> it seems at this time)
>
> I don't know if this actually had anything to do with the December update
> or
> if it's just my computer (I've been getting a lot of blue screens lately,
> think I have some kind of hw failure) or maybe I somehow have changed the
> date myself without noticing or it's just something else.
> I would also get several Microsoft crash report dialogs - "Would you like
> to
> report this error to MS" - and sent several of theese but none came back
> with
> the solution - ie "Your clock is f**ked up".
>
> I haven't tried to recreate this - I'm just all too happy having my
> computer
> work again - but my guess is all you have to do is set the system date to
> a
> year that is five digit.
>
> Your thoughts on this?
>
> Max
>
> Ps: Sorry if I should be posting in some other newsgroup, please direct me
> if I'm at the wrong place.
.
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