Help: Windows XP Pro certificate store has a strange cert that may be bad or damanged

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Neil

I have been working on getting activesync to Exchange 2003 working and was
therefore verifying certificates when I noticed that my XP client to which I
had a partnership had 3 very odd certificate folders.

The three folders are after "Certificate Enrollment Request/Certificates"
and have ASCII characters and Kanji (spelling?) characters intermixed.

This made me start looking through all my certificate folders and I noticed
some odd ones.

In the Certificate Enrollment Request/Certificates there is one named
"FZkC37K9xRLk8364" which reports that is either tampered with or corrupted.

I have attached just the public key to this cert (although I have both the
public and private in the request).

Is my cert-store damaged, or is there something malicious going on?

My machine is Windows XP and is in it's own workgroup, although it often
communicates to a Win2003 DC.

Any advice or investigative suggestions would be most welcome!

-Neil
neilgo(_r#mov3)@xcelar.com
 
It may just be a corrup/orphaned request - this can happen. I would not be
concerned at all. Feel free to delete it.
 
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