I’m new to the site if I have done something wrong I’m sorry I need help please. This message came up on my boot scan. I do not know what to do or what it means. I was just getting ready to back up my lap top to a hard drive. Do I need to get this off there so I don’t corrupt the back up hard drive? I’m really lost & need help please. Thank you
file:\windows\softwaredistribution\downloads\36c65afcc262a2ea53239408df36c097\BIT7036.tmp|>outlook.msp error 42127 (cab archive is corrupted)
Corrupted files: frequently asked questions
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Corrupted-files-frequently-asked-questions
This looks like Avast having a Blond moment, that looks like an update for Outlook, & because Avast can’t scan it, reports Corrupt. It it’s not broken don’t fix it.
It doesn’t matter what it looks like, if it happens to be corrupt ‘so what.’ It isn’t an indication that it is infected, e.g. it just can’t be scanned and that was the reason why, nothing more nothing less.
- Corrupted Archive file, this could simply mean that avast is unable to unpack it to scan the contents of the archive and assuming it is because it is corrupt. Even if it were corrupt there is nothing that a user can do to resolve any corruption, short of replacing the file. This I wouldn’t recommend unless you are getting problems relating to that file outside of the avast scan.
This particular example is somewhat strange as in the BIT7036.tmp file being an archive of sorts (that’s what the |> indicates) as the outlook.msp (update installation patch another archive/cab) file is within that file and is either corrupt or avast can’t open/extract the contents to be scanned.
Failed MS update.
Nothing to worry about.
Well the update may not have failed (though I would have though it would have been cleaned up otherwise), but avast was unable to extract the contents to scan them. Same result though nothing to worry about.
Unfortunately, MS often isn’t that tidy as we might wish.