Re: Crashes when clock year is five digit

I also noticed that you cannot go that far with years using the UI, but as
Jon found out you can at least go "high enough" to reproduce - >2100
according to his findings.

I did try the sfc /scannow but it did not report anything.


"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:

> 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
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> 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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