Message box: "This version of MS AntiSpyware has expired as of May 7, 1931"

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I installed the current Beta 1.0 on April 20, 2005.
Attempted to run it and received a message box: "This
version of Microsoft AntiSpyware has expired as of May 7,
1931." and further text suggesting I contact MS for an
update.

I've been working with a representative from Microsoft PC
Security and he had not heard of this particular message
from the MS AntiSpyware program. On this XP Pro machine,
he had me run a scf /scannow, a full system scan in Safe
Mode using Norton AntiVirus Pro 2004, and we examined
each task in Task Manager. The four tasks the technician
flagged as indicated a possible virus were:

mdm.exe and inetinfo.exe, which are both MS debugging
programs that might not normally be running;
rundll32.exe, which might or might not be being used by
a virus; and opware32.exe. The last one is an Omnipage
program, and I do have Omnipage on my system.

Given the checking of core Windows files, the clean virus
scan, the correct system clock (!), the having in place
of Automatic Updates for Windows and Norton over the last
year or so, as well as being behind a D-Link firewall,
would anyone else have any other ideas why the buggy
message box?

The only other clue I have of some system problem is
during shut down. I get one or two message boxes saying
Explorer is needing to be shut down, they are
not terminating normally, even though I have closed the
application.

I've removed Omnipage, deinstalled, reinstalled MS
AntiSpyware and keep getting the message box.

Thanks for any help regarding this.

Ian J.

.

Some problem!
only on my asus laptop compare
this message box!
date expired: July 5, 1931! LOL

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Bill Sanderson]

The solution should be the same for both issues:

Check the long and short date formats for your locale, in control panel, and
change them to the defaults--the first choice in the drop-down box.

This has worked for most, but not all, users who've hit this issue so far.

 

[Ian J.]

Dear Bill,
Thanks very much, your procedure worked for me. And
thanks for describing what are considered default
settings for those properties, I couldn't find any other
information in that regard.

To add to your note, the long and short date formats can
be set back to customized settings after installation of
the program, seemingly without any ensuing problems. And
it probably should have gone without saying that it's a
good idea to close programs such as Word that might
include information about the date formats in normal.dot.

Thanks again, Bill.

Ian J.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I'm unaware of what is really the "default" in these controls, myself--I
just know what appears to work!--this is like my 6 (now 16) year-old son who
was able to play the Oregon Trial computer game quite ably long before he
could read--he just tried things and found what worked........

There is some risk in changing the date format back. Some have found that
their version suddenly expired on some date completely different from what
is specified--probably because of this same issue.