BSOD possible Virus Issue
- From: zorba990@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 17 Jan 2006 23:01:06 -0800
I am using Windows 2000 on serveral older machines.
On three sperate machines, within the space of 10 weeks,
the following has happened:
(I found out the following through various occasions of this happening
and not all at once unfortunately).
The machine locks up or blue screens. When the machine is rebooted,
it won't boot. From all appearances the boot sector is corrupted.
Norton Antivirus is unable to find any boot sector or other virus.
(Neither is the free mcaffee or microsoft malicious software tool
scanners)
In this most recent case (on Windows 2000 Server Machine with
RAID 1) Placing the disk(s) in another system running windows xp,
the system is able to see the disk(s) and files so it appears that the
problem is related to the boot sector only. On the first machine much
more of the file system was corrupted.
On the first machine I spent 3 weeks fudging with it to get it back
up. It took a total of Spinrite, A parallel windows install, copying
the parallel install's system files (dlls and .exes over) and an XP
upgrade to get it back up. At each stage the machine was better
restored,
but it took all of that plus many times following bogus leads about
restoring the system hive, and following various online notes about
using windows system recovery console. In the end the machine came up
and all my stuff is there (including the desktop). Thanks the lords of
Kobol for small miracles (nerd alert).
At this point I have one dead machine I havn't messed with, one
machine restored to a new version of XP Pro, and one machine
(server 2000) that has two RAID disks I can see on the XP machine
but cannot yet get to boot up. (First got the dreaded 7B message and
now just says No Operating System Found).
Since three seperate machines are involved, i am guessing this was
caused
by a virus. But I can never find anything with any virus scanner. I
find
it hard to believe that 3 machines would die with boot sector problems
within
such a short period of time. Especially since they are all different
ages,
and two of the machines were running server software and were never
used
to surf the net or run programs other than their dedicated functions.
Other machines on the network are XP and have been unaffected.
So before I start mucking with the 2000 server's drives, I am wondering
if anyone has any suggestions as to what is going on and what I
can do to make sure this isn't some unfound virus that will come back
to haunt me at some future date. I've scanned both drives with Norton
(updated definitions today) and found nothing.
I'd be happy to hear an explanation that can discount the virus theory,
because at this point I'm stuck thinking I have an unidentified virus
or someone is somehow hacking into my network and crashing my machines.
(IOW I am in extreme paranoid mode and would like to dial it down a
bit).
Thanks for any help or just listening to my sad tale...
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