The internet agents appear to be disabled; the blocked
events log does not display; the system explorer portion
of advanced tools is blank.
There are no errors upon scanning, installing etc. The
error log has lots of entries in it.
Is there a file named vba6.dll anywhere on your system? If not, look for a
file named vbe6.dll (usually found in C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\VBA\VBA6). The easiest way to fix the problems you
experience without having to mess with the registry is to rename the file
vbe6.dll you found in the folder mentioned above to vba6.dll and to copy it
to the MS AS installation directory (or use an existing copy of vba6.dll you
may find on your system).
This problem apparently is caused by defective registration information for
the VBA runtime, I'm not sure if this is caused by the MS AS installer or by
another applications distributing or using this file. On my system the COM
registration for VBA pointed to vba6.dll in the MS AS folder (there is no
such file and it is not installed by MS AS or part of the installer) and to
a temporary file in the Windows Temp folder which got deleted since.
Sven