Really annoying IE5/Java prob - anyone able to help identify what's up?

[PaulSinclair]

I'm using IE5 on a clean install Win98v2 P166. Probl;em is, every other web page keeps coming up with runtime errors when loading. I don't believe all those sites really have coding errors, more so because when I get "Do you want to debug?" and click "No", the page will usually continue to load and works just fine. Not always, but 98-99% of the time.

These runtime errors vary, and on debugging usually point to a plausible location in some code or other. Examples are:

"Error Line XXX: valuehost is undefined", "Unterminated string variable XXX", "Unterminated string constant in Line YYY", "expected ‘)’ Line ZZZ"

I suspect somewhere I'm using out of date VM or software, can anyone help identify where, or how to identify what's going on?

Other info:
P166MMX on TV430 mobo, 64mb
Win98 4.10.2222A
IE5 5.00.2614.3500
Java Console release 5.0.0.3186

[Bleeding Edge]

Go to the online Windows Update page and download and install the critical updates along with DX Media Runtime patch. From the look of your Java version, that one has a vulnerability allowing malicious code to be entered. You may already be a victim. I’m not certain as to how it works.

To check to see if you have the safe version, run the: JVIEW command from the MSDOS prompt (within Windows). Version 5.00.3188 is the correct one. Also, from the Help menu in IE5, select about from the dropdown list. There you will find the regular version number of IE5, but…you also should see a string of numbers that verifies the update version. The latest should be: q244540. These numbers will reflect the security patches that are applied. It should look something like: q243638; q241361; q241362…followed by the latest number.

Now if you had occasion to reinstall Windows after applying the security patches from Windows critical updates, the update page will show that it has already been installed, however, in actuality, some of the critical files will have been replaced by the original ones during the install process. In this case, you have to view the “show installed updates” at the Windows Update page and choose to download/install from there.

There is a folder called Vcm in the Windows folder, which holds system files that have been changed. You can do a Find on some of the suspect files and compare the dates/version with the identically named ones in your System(32) folder(s). But stick to changing only the files pertaining to security updates. Check SocalGal’s Security Bulletin posting http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/001969.html . Or go directly here http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/security/default.asp or here http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/current.asp?ID=4&Parent=1 . The FAQs for each one has the name of the affected file and the proper date of the updated file.

With the proper settings, System File Checker can be used to verify for changed files. I don’t recommend doing this. You’ll find files that were changed that you wont know what in the world they are for. Choosing the replace these files can cause more problems then helping.

So... *lol* ...most of this is moot if you Windows hasn’t been reinstalled over itself. But installing (or reinstalling) the Critical Updates and the Runtime patch might help. So go over to the Update page and... “get busy child”. /forum/smile.gif

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Note: It could just be your EI5 security settings or even your ISP...but since it looks like you need the update anyway...


[This message has been edited by Bleeding Edge (edited 11-12-1999).]