Cryptographic service will not run

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Jesse Meredith

I have a PC that is running XP Home and has been infected
with the Blaster Worm. I have ran Norton's FixBlast AND
McAfee's Stinger fix and have tried to apply the patch
from Microsoft. Here inlies the problem...

XP REQUIRES SP1 to be installed, this PC does NOT have
SP1. I have SP1 on CD and when I try to install it I
can't. It fails becuase it "can not verify the integrity
of update.inf" and the "Cryptographic Service" is not
running. I tried to restart the service manually through
Services, it fails with error code "998". I can not find
ANY information that deals specifically with this problem.

Does anyone out there have a fix for this? Has anyone
encountered the same problem?

Please feel free to email me directly as opposed to
posting here. Once I or someone else finds a fix I will
post it here for all to share.

(e-mail address removed)
 
Jessee --

Follow these instructions:

Step #1:

Perform a Disk Cleanup:

Go to Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup

Step #2:

Go to Start > Run and type: MSCONFIG , and hit enter.
Select "Normal Startup", click "apply" and reboot.

Step #3:

1. Start the Administrative Tools utility in your Control Panel.
2. Double-click Services.
3. Right-click "Cryptographic Services", and then click Properties.
4. Click "Automatic" for Startup type, and then click Start.
5. Try installing the Updates again. If the problem persists, go to Step 6.
6. Click Start, and then click Run.
7. In the Open box, type: CMD , and then click OK.
8. At the Command Prompt, type (or Copy & Paste) the following commands,
each individually, pressing ENTER after each line:

net stop cryptsvc

ren %systemroot%\system32\catroot2 oldcatroot2

net start cryptsvc

Type EXIT to close the Command Prompt, and visit Windows Update again.


**** ALTERNATIVE ****

Windows XP Service Pack 1 (direct download)
http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/default..asp

Note: Select "Network Installation" (32-bit)



--
Nicholas

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| I have a PC that is running XP Home and has been infected
| with the Blaster Worm. I have ran Norton's FixBlast AND
| McAfee's Stinger fix and have tried to apply the patch
| from Microsoft. Here inlies the problem...
|
| XP REQUIRES SP1 to be installed, this PC does NOT have
| SP1. I have SP1 on CD and when I try to install it I
| can't. It fails becuase it "can not verify the integrity
| of update.inf" and the "Cryptographic Service" is not
| running. I tried to restart the service manually through
| Services, it fails with error code "998". I can not find
| ANY information that deals specifically with this problem.
|
| Does anyone out there have a fix for this? Has anyone
| encountered the same problem?
|
| Please feel free to email me directly as opposed to
| posting here. Once I or someone else finds a fix I will
| post it here for all to share.
|
| (e-mail address removed)
 
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