windows web update don't work

ok went to windows update and get pushed to the thank you page for mac ??


Thank you for your interest in obtaining updates from our site.

This website is designed to work with Microsoft Windows operating systems
only.
To find updates for Microsoft products that are designed for Macintosh
operating systems, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/mac/.

I have windows xp home sp2

heres a system information page

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Manufacturer IBM
System Model 8305KJU
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~1993 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date IBM 24KT21AUS, 30/05/2002
SMBIOS Version 2.31
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180
(xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"

Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 256.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 18.18 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 750.47 MB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
anything more info reply back to me Ty

"livecrosswire" <> schrieb:

> ok went to windows update and get pushed to the thank you page for mac ??

http://winware.org/de/browsertest.php
What's the shown there in the User-Agent line while accessing the
site whith Internet Explorer?

Which "Privacy" applications do you have installed and are running
in the background?

Bye,
Freudi

Windows Update page says "Thank you for your interest in obtaining updates from our site."
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/35/1/


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"livecrosswire" <> wrote in message
news:73461445-BFCD-4231-8BA6-...
| ok went to windows update and get pushed to the thank you page for mac ??
|
|
| Thank you for your interest in obtaining updates from our site.
|
| This website is designed to work with Microsoft Windows operating systems
| only.
| To find updates for Microsoft products that are designed for Macintosh
| operating systems, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/mac/.
|
| I have windows xp home sp2
|
| heres a system information page
|
| OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
| Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
| OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
|
| System Manufacturer IBM
| System Model 8305KJU
| System Type X86-based PC
| Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~1993 Mhz
| BIOS Version/Date IBM 24KT21AUS, 30/05/2002
| SMBIOS Version 2.31
| Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
| System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
| Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
| Locale United States
| Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180
| (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
|
| Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
| Total Physical Memory 256.00 MB
| Available Physical Memory 18.18 MB
| Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
| Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
| Page File Space 750.47 MB
| Page File C:\pagefile.sys
| anything more info reply back to me Ty
|

"Ottmar Freudenberger" wrote:

> "livecrosswire" <> schrieb:
>
> > ok went to windows update and get pushed to the thank you page for mac ??
>
> http://winware.org/de/browsertest.php
> What's the shown there in the User-Agent line while accessing the
> site whith Internet Explorer?
>
> Which "Privacy" applications do you have installed and are running
> in the background?
>
> Bye,
> Freudi
>


HTTP request headers (received)
Accept */*
Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate
Accept-Language en-us,en-CA;q=0.5
Connection Keep-Alive
Host winware.org
Referer
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...6-b645849759cd
UA-CPU x86
User-Agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1;
SIMBAR={91F34258-B2B6-46FB-9194-B3932591AA03}; Mozilla/4.0(Compatible
Mozilla/4.0(Compatible-EmbeddedWB 14.57 http://bsalsa.com/ EmbeddedWB- 14.57
from: http://bsalsa.com/ ; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR
3.0.04506.30)
info wanted

"livecrosswire" <> schrieb:

> User-Agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1;
> SIMBAR={91F34258-B2B6-46FB-9194-B3932591AA03}; Mozilla/4.0(Compatible
> Mozilla/4.0(Compatible-EmbeddedWB 14.57 http://bsalsa.com/ EmbeddedWB- 14.57
> from: http://bsalsa.com/ ; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR
> 3.0.04506.30)

Huh, you have lot of entries there, which shouldn't be there und
which are preventing Windows Update from detecting, that you're using
a WU compatible browser aka IE.

Some entries are based on the "EmbeddedWB" application(s) you've
installed from bsala.com. Have a look into the options, whether you
can disable the munging in the User-Agent header. Otherwise, ask the
vendor for support (http://bsalsa.com/forum/) or uninstall the whole
suite.

And you have a "SIMBAR" entry there too, which is an Adware-Toolbar
displaying Ads every now and then (and is implemented totally wrong
cause that shouldn't show up (that way) in the User-Agent header).
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_131206.htm seems to describe another
variant of that toolbar. It may be even worse, see
http://www.beyondsecurity.com/besirt...l-incident.pdf
http://www.beyondsecurity.com/besirt...-incident2.pdf
Please try to remove that Adware via Adaware and/or Spybot Search&
Destroy (http://lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php and
http://www.safer-networking.org)

With these two (based) entries removed, you should be able to access
Windows Update once again.

Bye,
Freudi

hey thanks have been to update for windows and removed the simbar it was
called sweet im use's smile's for msn and email and way the other part of
firefox and i don't use windows update in firefox. I am going to look in to
the bsalsa.com thing for firefox LOL
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Mozilla/4.0(Compatible
Mozilla/4.0(Compatible-EmbeddedWB 14.57 http://bsalsa.com/ EmbeddedWB- 14.57
from: http://bsalsa.com/ ; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR
3.0.04506.30)

"Ottmar Freudenberger" wrote:

> "livecrosswire" <> schrieb:
>
> > User-Agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1;
> > SIMBAR={91F34258-B2B6-46FB-9194-B3932591AA03}; Mozilla/4.0(Compatible
> > Mozilla/4.0(Compatible-EmbeddedWB 14.57 http://bsalsa.com/ EmbeddedWB- 14.57
> > from: http://bsalsa.com/ ; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR
> > 3.0.04506.30)
>
> Huh, you have lot of entries there, which shouldn't be there und
> which are preventing Windows Update from detecting, that you're using
> a WU compatible browser aka IE.
>
> Some entries are based on the "EmbeddedWB" application(s) you've
> installed from bsala.com. Have a look into the options, whether you
> can disable the munging in the User-Agent header. Otherwise, ask the
> vendor for support (http://bsalsa.com/forum/) or uninstall the whole
> suite.
>
> And you have a "SIMBAR" entry there too, which is an Adware-Toolbar
> displaying Ads every now and then (and is implemented totally wrong
> cause that shouldn't show up (that way) in the User-Agent header).
> http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_131206.htm seems to describe another
> variant of that toolbar. It may be even worse, see
> http://www.beyondsecurity.com/besirt...l-incident.pdf
> http://www.beyondsecurity.com/besirt...-incident2.pdf
> Please try to remove that Adware via Adaware and/or Spybot Search&
> Destroy (http://lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php and
> http://www.safer-networking.org)
>
> With these two (based) entries removed, you should be able to access
> Windows Update once again.
>
> Bye,
> Freudi
>

"livecrosswire" <> schrieb:

> hey thanks have been to update for windows and removed the simbar it was
> called sweet im use's smile's for msn and email and way the other part of
> firefox and i don't use windows update in firefox. I am going to look in to
> the bsalsa.com thing for firefox LOL

See also http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817144 - "Method 4".

Bye,
Freudi