"Fraudulent, NOT Micorsoft" digital ID's... and Internet connection freezing

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Chris Rothe

I hope I get this out; I just tried a minute ago and Mail stopped
responding.

- I have a Gateway laptop purchased the first day Vista was offered.
- I had problems installing drivers for Lexmark all-in-one. XP drivers were
installed first. Fought with Lexmark for several weeks before getting
approriate drivers. But now it still occassionally says there's no
communication and reinstalls from the USB bus. (It's annoying!)
- I tried to install Topologilinux and it had me set up a secondary Internet
connection that I didn't understand. I don't know how that's affecting
things.
- When I use Explorer's menu to open Tools|Options, go to the Security tab,
click the "Digital IDs" button, and scroll over to Untrusted Publishers,
there are two entries in that list that say "Microsoft Coporation" but then
under "Friendly Name" it says, "Fraudulent, NOT Microsoft".
- When I run the Task Manager and do File|New Task|Browse, the most recent 3
Applications (not DLL's??) are related to the printer, but then there's
"mrt.exe" dated 4/3/07. It describes itself as "Microsoft Windows Malicious
Software Removal Tool" and claims to be from "Microsoft Corporation", but
I'm wondering if this is the fraudulent thing. I can't find it when I Google
it, and that concerns me.

When answering, please understand that 25 years ago I was a programmer, but
I have little experience with anything since Windows 3.1. I'm not a dummy,
but I don't know anything about modern software.
 
Chris Rothe said:
I hope I get this out; I just tried a minute ago and Mail stopped
responding.

- I have a Gateway laptop purchased the first day Vista was offered.
- I had problems installing drivers for Lexmark all-in-one. XP drivers
were installed first. Fought with Lexmark for several weeks before getting
approriate drivers. But now it still occassionally says there's no
communication and reinstalls from the USB bus. (It's annoying!)
- I tried to install Topologilinux and it had me set up a secondary
Internet connection that I didn't understand. I don't know how that's
affecting things.
- When I use Explorer's menu to open Tools|Options, go to the Security
tab, click the "Digital IDs" button, and scroll over to Untrusted
Publishers, there are two entries in that list that say "Microsoft
Coporation" but then under "Friendly Name" it says, "Fraudulent, NOT
Microsoft".
- When I run the Task Manager and do File|New Task|Browse, the most recent
3 Applications (not DLL's??) are related to the printer, but then there's
"mrt.exe" dated 4/3/07. It describes itself as "Microsoft Windows
Malicious Software Removal Tool" and claims to be from "Microsoft
Corporation", but I'm wondering if this is the fraudulent thing. I can't
find it when I Google it, and that concerns me.

When answering, please understand that 25 years ago I was a programmer,
but I have little experience with anything since Windows 3.1. I'm not a
dummy, but I don't know anything about modern software.
Click to expand...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mrt.exe&btnG=Google+Search
 
Hi Chris--

I can usually get a printer working, but I'm not familiar with
Topologilinux--some people will be. The Malicious Software Tool is a
genuine MSFT app and you can download it if you think it's causing you any
problem, you can uninstall it from Add/Remove and anytime you like run it
from MSFT's site without installing here. It's basically a quick scan to
pick off some of the leading malware or malicious ware and they try to keep
it updated. It goes after some leading spyware and some leading worse
offendors that are malicious ware.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

Malicious Software Removal Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890830


As to your communication error with the Lexmark All-In-One (they may have
more all in one model--I didn't drill that) I found this info, and it may
help you:

http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=8131796010370&lang=en-CA&mkt=en-CA&FORM=CVRE

You may have to remove the All-In-One driver and reinstall it and I read
your post and know it has taken you a lot of time and Lexmark from what you
say took way to long to release a driver for you. Now that it has it works
some of the time--that's annoying and I hope this resolves.

I spent nearly two years making the HP Scanjet driver (that HP lol says will
never work in Vista) but then who is HP to know what will work from HP on
Vista? I have it working every time now to copy or scan--it's been a
personal battle and before I did I had a communication error for it as well
among the many problems --it would work some times and sometimes not. Now
it works all the time--I tweaked UAC permissions and had to go through a
convoluted install process to get it working. The Vista print team told me
directly that I should seek out a TWAIN driver which I never found, and
people on the print team in a direct chat to me blamed tightening UAC in
each build for breaking printer and scanner drivers. They could have done
better--and they didn't.

They also promised me to makie the default for a printer on the pulldown to
be Virtual and I lobbied for that with others because we discovered many
thousands of printers would work if they defaulted Virtual Port and they had
the old outdated LPT1 as default for Vista. I was disappointed to see that
when RTM shipped, they didn't correct this as promised. You might check
CP>Printers>Properties>Ports tab>and put your checkmark in Virtual printer
port for USB. I don't know if this will help your particular issue with the
communication error but it has during the Vista Beta builds gotten a lot of
printers consistently up and running.

Remove the All-In-One software
If the All-In-One software is not installed properly, a communication error
message appears when you try to print. You may need to remove the All-In-One
software, and then reinstall it.

From your desktop, double-click the Lexmark 6200 Series folder. Note: If the
Lexmark 6200 Series folder is not found on the desktop or was accidentally
deleted, go to your Mac OS X drive where the printer software was installed
and then choose Library Printers Lexmark Lexmark 6200 Series folder.

Double-click the Lexmark 6200 Series Uninstaller icon.
Complete the user authentication notice, and then click OK. Note: For help
on passwords, click to go to the Help Center.

Click Uninstall. The All-In-One software is removed.
Click OK.

There are better people to help you with the general concept of MSFT's
Windows Vista saying webpages are not valid or MSFT software is not valid or
they don't know if they can trust MSFT lol webpages or software (and there
they are sniffing reality at Redmond). MSFT doesn't know if it can trust
MSFT--and they are right about that. If you read this blog by Minimicrosoft
an employee at MSFT, you'll get more insight as to why MSFT can't trust
MSFT.

Mini-Microsoft
http://minimsft.blogspot.com/

During the Beta, several of us had some problems downloading from the FTP
rarely, and we got errors that Vista didn't trust the originator of the
download who was MSFT. I thought those were amusing, screenshot 'em, sent
them to the appropriate place to bug 'em and as was often the case MSFT
pleaded the 5th like Monica Goodling. They had nothing to say about the
insanity of MSFT's IE in Vista saying it didn't trust MSFT's downloads--you
would have thought that there would have been communication between the
developers and PM of the download and the teams that originated the errors
but of course NO. I have them screenshot somewhere in my archives for each
Beta build and I could dig them out. They are funny to read, but not funny
to have to work through.

Good luck,

CH
 
????
on my Vista Home Premium there is no "Digital IDs" button from
Tools|options|security tab.

to get your untrusted publishers list I have to:

Tools
internet options
content tab (not security tab)
in securities area click publishers, then Untrusted publishers

The two entries you see here are correct and normal. Microsoft lost control
of the certificates listed here (they were fraudulent issued) and 'revoked'
them. They are here so that if something is signed with these certificates
it is known not to accept the item.

Michael
 
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