HenriK wrote:
WLS wrote:
HenriK wrote:
HenriK wrote:
For reasons that are not at all clear, my wife's WinXP PC suddenly
displays the error message:
'Seamonkey.exe not a valid Win32 application'
Anybody have any idea what has caused this? A bit of Microsoft revenge?
Thanks, in advance, for any assistance, guidance, or information on
this
subject.
I am still completely baffled at why this error message now pops up
every time we try to bring up Seamonkey and/or Seamonkey mail on my
wife's PC (running XP-Home, fully updated, and Avast!).
The only two things I can surmise is that it somehow has something to do
with the v.2.0.14 I updated her machine with last week or that she
visited some website in the past few days that has corrupted Seamonkey
somehow.
Advice on how to repair the problem without losing all of her stored
bookmarks and address book would be appreciated as well as advice on
what could have caused the problem so we can avoid it in the future.
Have you considered that Avast may be seeing it as a virus and corrected
that situation?
WLS
Thank you for the suggestion. I had not considered that possibility. I
have looked all through the Avast! menus and don't find anyplace where a
suspect file has been deposited, stashed, or anything else. I have also
discovered the following about the copy of Seamonkey.exe that Windows XP
says 'is not a valid Win32 application'. The file is 1.36 mB in size but
is dated 04-30-2011. I have also discovered that the version of
Seamonkey installed on my wife's PC is apparently v.2.0.13. I seem to
have manually updated her PC with all of the latest Microsoft updates
and the latest Adobe update but NOT the Seamonkey v.2.0.14 update. My
conclusion, then, is that some website my wife visited or some e-mail
she received that Avast! didn't catch has caused the problem. If I had a
copy of just the Seamonkey.exe file for v.2.0.13, I could past that over
the existing and apparently faulty copy of Seamonkey.exe and see if that
solved the problem. Beyond that, I'm stumped.
My wife now tells me that she MAY have updated Seamonkey to v.2.0.14.
Accordingly, I don't know what version is loaded because I can't get
past the error message to get Seamonkey to open and identify itself.
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