Date changing in Win XP SP2 changing on it's own?

[Gis Bun]

Hi. I have a Win XP SP2 machine on a Server 2003 SP2 domain. Fully patched
with AV and the Win XP firewall.

Of recently only, twice the day had changed on it's own. It always has the
same time but today it went from Dec 15th to Dec 26th. Previous time also
stayed within the month with the same time.

All of our PCs connect to one of our servers to pick up the correct date and
time using AD and have no issues.

Thought maybe it's the battery in the PC but since the time hasn't changed
and no BIOS errors at boot up, I'd say it's unlikely.

Ideas?

 

[Colton]

Gis Bun,

Sounds to me like it's just a little prank virus that someone wanted to
play around with. Possibly someone that had no clue what they were doing,
and put it out with their first try. Have you tried any anti-virus scans to
eliminate this possibility?

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[Gis Bun]

We do a weekly scan. Next one scheduled for Wednesday night. The first date
change occured prior to last Wednesday's scan. Nothing picked up.

There's no strange process running in the Task Manager. NOthing weird loads
up at boot time.

 

[Unknown]

Are you able to check the date on the server when the date changes on a PC?

 

[Gis Bun]

I suspect it's an [sync] issue between the PC and AD as I noticed the
security updates weren't going through either from our WSUS.

So I pulled the PC off the domain and then put it back. Seems to be fine and
the updates started to install.