Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1

[Stephen Howe]

Hi

I keep coming acorss numerous web pages that fire up what looks like a
service pack of Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1 automatically (so could be
genuine, could be fake).
Has anyone seen this or have any information on it?

Cheers

Stephen Howe

 

[Malke]

"Stephen Howe" <stephenPOINThoweATtns-globalPOINTcom> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I keep coming acorss numerous web pages that fire up what looks like a
> service pack of Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1 automatically (so could be
> genuine, could be fake).
> Has anyone seen this or have any information on it?

This post is a little ambiguous. You mean you go to various websites and
they try and download something called "Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1" to your
computer?!! Of course that would be fake!

To be sure, please supply the urls - properly munged as in the example below
- where this happens so we can check them out for you.

To munge an url: hxxp://www.evilsite.xxx.

What operating system are you running, what Service Pack level does it have,
and do you have MS Access 2000 (from Office 2000) installed? What antivirus
is installed?

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

 

[Stephen Howe]

> This post is a little ambiguous.

Sorry, I hope below helps

> You mean you go to various websites and
> they try and download something called "Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1" to
> your
> computer?!! Of course that would be fake!

No I dont think they do.
I think they, somehow, invoke "Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1" on my computer
but I dont know why (possibly because not all features installed of SR-1? I
am guessing here, not sure)
I see the dialog box to install it pop up (possibly I am wrong in my
analysis)
I am reasonably certain that Access 200 has been installed and the Service
Release 1 Pack applied.
Somehow the computer knows (probably Work's IT Services) where it should
look for the patch (Z drive) but cannot find it (no Z drive mapped).

> What operating system are you running, what Service Pack level does it
> have,

XP Professional, SP2.
Yes MS Access 2000 is installed.
Everything else (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint) is 2003

Under MS Access 2000, Help About, System Info, Applications, Access 2000
I see

Application name Microsoft Access
Version 9.0
Build 3822
Product ID 50604-270-6551783-02735
Application path C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Access2000\Office\
Language English (United States)
ADO version Not Available
VBA version 6.05
References Not Available

Under Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, I see

Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1

> and do you have MS Access 2000 (from Office 2000) installed? What
> antivirus
> is installed?

McAfees, bang up to date.

Cheers and thanks

Stephen Howe

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Stephen Howe" <stephenPOINThoweATtns-globalPOINTcom>

>> This post is a little ambiguous.

| Sorry, I hope below helps

No, it doesn't.

We need the URL of the Pop-Up suggesting the installation of the so-called hotfix/patch.


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http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
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[Malke]

"Stephen Howe" <stephenPOINThoweATtns-globalPOINTcom> wrote:

>> This post is a little ambiguous.
>
> Sorry, I hope below helps
>
>> You mean you go to various websites and
>> they try and download something called "Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1" to
>> your
>> computer?!! Of course that would be fake!
>
> No I dont think they do.
> I think they, somehow, invoke "Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1" on my computer
> but I dont know why (possibly because not all features installed of SR-1?
> I am guessing here, not sure)
> I see the dialog box to install it pop up (possibly I am wrong in my
> analysis)
> I am reasonably certain that Access 200 has been installed and the Service
> Release 1 Pack applied.
> Somehow the computer knows (probably Work's IT Services) where it should
> look for the patch (Z drive) but cannot find it (no Z drive mapped).
>
>> What operating system are you running, what Service Pack level does it
>> have,
>
> XP Professional, SP2.
> Yes MS Access 2000 is installed.
> Everything else (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint) is 2003
>
> Under MS Access 2000, Help About, System Info, Applications, Access 2000
> I see
>
> Application name Microsoft Access
> Version 9.0
> Build 3822
> Product ID 50604-270-6551783-02735
> Application path C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Access2000\Office\
> Language English (United States)
> ADO version Not Available
> VBA version 6.05
> References Not Available
>
> Under Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, I see
>
> Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1
>
>> and do you have MS Access 2000 (from Office 2000) installed? What
>> antivirus
>> is installed?
>
> McAfees, bang up to date.

It sounds to me like you are going somewhere and something is trying to
install. That in itself is not particularly good but since you didn't
provide the URLs as requested and/or tell me exactly when this happens,
there's no way for me to assess that risk for you.

It sounds more likely that the Windows Installer is messed up and you need
to fix it. Try this:

Clean Up MSI (Windows Installer) -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kben-us290301

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

 

[Stephen Howe]

> We need the URL of the Pop-Up suggesting the installation of the so-called
> hotfix/patch.

Your mistaken. There is no URL at all. Not one.

What popped up was a regular Windows dialog box for installing Microsoft
Access 2000 SR-1. It is a dialog box with a local path to Microsoft Access
2000 SR-1 and "Ok" and "Cancel". I am 100% certain it is genuine. It is
being invoked.

But it only pops up if Internet Explorer is on certain web pages. I usually
have to click on Cancel a few times as something on the IE web page causes
it to appear. I dont know why certain web pages cause this. If you want a
URL of a web page that does this, I will try and find one.

Stephen Howe

 

[Stephen Howe]

See response to David.

> It sounds to me like you are going somewhere and something is trying to
> install.

I think that is nearly right.
I think something is causing Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1 dialog box to pop
up (which has no URL).
That "something" is not the Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1 dialog box.

> That in itself is not particularly good but since you didn't
> provide the URLs as requested and/or tell me exactly when this happens,
> there's no way for me to assess that risk for you.

I will get a sample URL. Sorry about that.

> It sounds more likely that the Windows Installer is messed up and you need
> to fix it. Try this:

Dont think so.
Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1 predates the Windows Installer.

Stephen Howe

 

[Malke]

"Stephen Howe" <stephenPOINThoweATtns-globalPOINTcom> wrote:


> Dont think so.
> Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1 predates the Windows Installer.

That isn't true and doesn't make sense. In fact, it is very common when the
Windows Installer gets mixed up that you will get constant popups asking
for an Office CD. So if I were you, I'd be trying the Installer fix. But
your choice.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

 

[Stephen Howe]

>> Dont think so.
>> Microsoft Access 2000 SR-1 predates the Windows Installer.
>
> That isn't true and doesn't make sense.

That is true and does make sense.
Windows Installer relies on a put together MSI package file.
Office 2000, Service Release 1a was an executable that did not rely on the
Windows Installer, it has it is own builtin installer.
o2ksr1a.exe:
MD5 Checksum: 548E82A5054BE4331F5F7BB45DE2C27A

For the period 1992 up to the point when Windows Installer was a reality,
how do you think Microsoft installed its own software? Versions of VB,
Visual C++, Office, other Microsoft software had their own installers. It
wasnt packages with MSI extensions.
I have Office 1995 somewhere. The installer on that did not use the Windows
Installer.
You seem to think that Windows Installer has been around since Windows 3.0
or when Win32 became standard. It has not.
Prior to its release, Microsoft used it own internal installers and everyone
else used Wyse, InstallShield etc.

DLL hell is all because Microsoft should have released Windows Installer
with Windows 3.0 and did not do so.
So everybody else constructed homebrew installers which was not satisfactory
as no one knew what the Microsoft rules for DLL installation was (roughly:
install system DLLs in the System32 direction using VerInstall API and
application specific DLLs in same directory as application EXE). Apple
Macintosh's had had a standard installer for a long time.

Anyway I appreciate your help and efforts.

Cheers

Stephen Howe