Unknown Publisher Security Warning driving me mad 1

[1DMF]

Hi,

I don't know why all of a sudden my PC has started doing this, it never used to.

When I click on my desktop icon to open the company MS Access DB, I get an Open File Security Warning - Unkown Publisher pop-up and I have to choose 'open' to run the DB.

Why has this just started to happen? it used to run fine.

How can I stop this before it drives me so mad i wipe my hard drive and start again!

"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

 

[1DMF]

ok i did a repair windows option from the windows install disk, re-installed SP2, and now it's worse.

Now it keeps poping up the same 'unkown publisher' warning on other desktop application icons.

Such as FileZilla, Adobe Photoshop / Image Ready, Snag-It.

Why is my PC doing this?


"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

 

[linney]

Is it occurring in Safe Mode?

Is it happening under another username?

 

[1DMF]

Thanks linney, you got me thinking in the right direction.

No it didn't happen when i logged on as someone else to the domain nor as admin to the local machine.

So I did some digging in my roaming profile, I found a couple of TMP files, one called prfa02.tmp , can't remember the name of the other one, but they were both hidden files and nearly 1GB each!

"explains why my machine was taking ages to shutdown of an evening!"

rather than take any chances I deleted the domain account/user from the documents and setting on the local machine.

deleted the roaming profile from the server (allthough the file above was locked and I had to re-boot server before I could completely delete the roaming profile)

added my domain account back to the local machine and everthing is fine.

I'd copied the desktop, my docs and favourites folders before deleting, so getting them back was easy.

all that was left was the anoying wait for outlook to download the local copy of my mail box again, configure signatures and stationery, along with address books in the public folders and additional shared mailbox (Diary) etc...

And now i'm good to go.

Phew got there in the end, dunno why it happened, just hope it doesn't again!

Cheers for all the input peeps.

Regards,

1DMF.




"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.