Damaged Active X File, Frequent IE crashes

adreyn · 09-09-2006, 09:27 PM

I was told to post my question here about about a damages Active X file from over on the Hijack This forum. I hope someone here can help.

found a damaged file while I was looking through other files, I wonder if this would have anything to do with the IE crashes as well. This is what I found:

Downloaded Program Files
Type=Active X Control
Created=10/9/2001
Total Size=4KB
ID={9F1C11AA-197B-4942-BA54-47A8489BB47F}
Status=Damaged
Code Base=http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/CAB/x86/unicode/iuctl.CAB?37685.9172916667

Thanks for the help!
Adrienne

Zazula · 09-09-2006, 09:39 PM

Are you using the Windows Update site without any problems?

adreyn · 09-09-2006, 10:21 PM

As far as I know, I haven't had problems with that site.

Zazula · 09-09-2006, 10:29 PM

This ActiveX was installed in your pc back in 2004, when the Windows Update site performed an update. What happened back then is described in The Windows Update Web site indicates that your Windows Update software has to be updated. I believe you can safely disable it from IE > Tools > Manage Add-ons (although I don't think it'll show in the loaded ActiveX's). You can give Pancake the info I told you here, so that in your HJT log thread he guides you on how to discard of this ActiveX via HiJack This!

09-09-2006, 09:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
adreyn Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 61 OS: windows Vista Sp1	Damaged Active X File, Frequent IE crashes I was told to post my question here about about a damages Active X file from over on the Hijack This forum. I hope someone here can help. found a damaged file while I was looking through other files, I wonder if this would have anything to do with the IE crashes as well. This is what I found: Downloaded Program Files Type=Active X Control Created=10/9/2001 Total Size=4KB ID={9F1C11AA-197B-4942-BA54-47A8489BB47F} Status=Damaged Code Base=http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/CAB/x86/unicode/iuctl.CAB?37685.9172916667 Thanks for the help! Adrienne

09-09-2006, 09:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
Zazula Manager Emeritus, I'm blond, James Blond Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Athens, Greece Posts: 7,667 OS: Win XP Pro SP2	Are you using the Windows Update site without any problems? __________________ "Time is the wisest because it discovers everything" Thales of Miletus (ca.624BC-ca.546BC) "Everything flows, nothing stands still." Heraclitus of Ephesus (ca.535BC-475BC) "One thing I know, that I know nothing" Socrates of Athens (ca.470BC–399BC)

09-09-2006, 10:29 PM	#4 (permalink)
Zazula Manager Emeritus, I'm blond, James Blond Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Athens, Greece Posts: 7,667 OS: Win XP Pro SP2	This ActiveX was installed in your pc back in 2004, when the Windows Update site performed an update. What happened back then is described in The Windows Update Web site indicates that your Windows Update software has to be updated. I believe you can safely disable it from IE > Tools > Manage Add-ons (although I don't think it'll show in the loaded ActiveX's). You can give Pancake the info I told you here, so that in your HJT log thread he guides you on how to discard of this ActiveX via HiJack This! __________________ "Time is the wisest because it discovers everything" Thales of Miletus (ca.624BC-ca.546BC) "Everything flows, nothing stands still." Heraclitus of Ephesus (ca.535BC-475BC) "One thing I know, that I know nothing" Socrates of Athens (ca.470BC–399BC)

09-09-2006, 10:21 PM	#3 (permalink)
adreyn Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 61 OS: windows Vista Sp1	As far as I know, I haven't had problems with that site.