Damaged Marker on Downloaded Program Files

[mlaurenson]

Can anyone tell me why IE marks a file (ocx or dll) Damaged in the Downloaded Program files folder. Is it known to be corrupt? not registered correctly? registered and not really there?

Any info appreciated.

 

[carrr]

Kinda depends...(just the answer you wanted, right?)
Sometimes, yep...you've got a damaged or corrupted file. Uninstall and reinstall will correct it. Other times, like in the case of Java 1.4.1, it'll say damaged when there's not a thing wrong with it. (I suppose that's evidence of the love between M$oft and Sun?)