LOOK: NEW windows XP flaw

[Doubolplay1]

K, I figured I would come here because the site is so great. Here is a good one and I want to see if anyone can figure it out.

PIII 550mhz
256MB RAM
20GB HD
All drivers are working fine.
I have administrative priviledges in the pc.
Fresh install of Windows XP Pro and I get this message while trying to install Norton Antivirus 2002,

"The installation of D:\NAV2002\NAV\NAV.MSI is not permitted due to an error in software restriction policy processing. The object cannot be trusted." this also has eventid: 1008 under event viewer.

P.S-> it is not just Norton , it is any .exe, .msi file . They start to install and then gives me a corrupted file error message. Now, I have installed XP before , but I have never gotten this. I checked the Local Security Policy (secpol.msc) and it is supposed to allow according to system permissions. Any help would be greatly appreciated in this matter.No wonder , I loved windows 2000 so much.

 

[IBuyUFO]

I think you're the only one with that problem. I've never seen that before.

 

[NEVERwinter]

i'm not sure.... but maybe SP1 & windows update would fix that?

 

[Pilsnerpete]

If you've disabled the "windows installer" service, set it to manual. Don't blame me! It's just a guess.:beer:

 

[Guga]

Are you member of a domain?

Software Restriction Policies are new policies that Microsoft implement on Windows 2003.

The default is everything can run and you can create exceptions, but with just one click you turn it around.. Everything is blocked and then you can create exceptions of what can run.

Never saw a xp machine stand alone with that kind of errors

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: NEVERwinter
i'm not sure.... but maybe SP1 & windows update would fix that?

You should do this first before you start any other troubleshooting.

 

[bocamojo]

Well, I've never seen that one before. I found this on MSDN, relating to the event ID 1008: "Only available on Windows Installer 2.0 or later. An error message indicating that there were problems attempting to verify the package according to software restriction policy." Of course, that doesn't help much, does it? Well, I also found an article on Microsoft about using software restriction policies in XP. Here's the link: Link Good luck.