-----Original Message-----
every time I open iexplorer or explorer to view a page I
get this error msg ( "is not a valid date ). how do I
fix this Problem
help josie
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Trojan Alert!
Article quoted From:
http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,31856,00.html
"This problem shows up because someone used a trial
version of the
programming tool Delphi to write some software. They then
published that
software and it ended up on your computer. Now that this
person's trial
period of Delphi has expired, so has the software on your
computer.
Unfortunately, this software appears to be what is called
a "Shell
Extension," which is a piece of software that Windows
loads and talks to
whenever you click on a file, open Internet Explorer, and
in some other
situations as well. We have been able to determine which
program is causing
this error, however we are still not quite sure how it is
finding it's way
onto customers' computers.
Note: If you believe that this an application you should
not remove please
use your own judgement of what you should do.
To remove this software, open up Control Panel via the
Start Menu. Some
users have reported that the error prevents them from
doing this; in this
case you will need to boot your computer into Safe Mode.
To do this, reboot
the machine and press F8 as it is starting up. You will
be presented with a
list of options, one of which is "Safe Mode." Once you
have the Control
Panel open, select "Add/Remove Programs." You will see a
list of
applications installed on your machine. One of these
should be called "CPR."
Remove this application with the Add/Remove Programs
window, and you should
see these errors go away. The users that we have spoken
to have all reported
that this CPR application was not something they
intentionally installed,
and have not reported any negative side effects from the
removal of it.
On rare occasions, using Add/Remove Programs is not
enough; a reference to
this software is still left on the machine and the error
will persist. In
this case, you need to delete the offending software
manually, and you will
need to log back into Safe Mode to do it. Once in Safe
Mode, open the Start
Menu and select "Run." In the Run dialog, enter "cmd."
This will take you to
a DOS window. Navigate to the c:windowssystem32 like so:
cd \windows\system32
and then remove the file manually by typing
erase cpr.dll
Reboot into normal mode and you should see the error go
away."
