Re: anything to worry about??...

From: Bill Sanderson (Bill_Sanderson_at_msn.com.plugh.org)
Date: 08/28/03 

Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:44:25 -0400

I'm not worried about viruses, then. The problem you describe could
definitely be a hardware issue, or perhaps a software conflict of some sort.

Event log: Right-click My Computer, and choose Manage.
Click the Plus in front of Event Viewer, and then click on System

Look through the system events for ones surrounding the time that you saw
the blue-screen error.
Look at items with a Red X Error type, or yellow triangle Warning type.

I haven't got a crash-type event in my own log to look at--but you will see
a typical pattern of events at boot time, so maybe find the boot after the
crash, and look backwards to see if anything useful was recorded.

Sometimes the driver or system file involved in the crash will be recorded
in the blue-screen message, which may also make it to the system log
depending on the kind of crash--(i.e. whether the system was able to do the
recording!)

"Ty" <abc@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0d0501c36cdc$98af8330$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> thanks for the reply. how would i go about checking my
> system event log? and what should i be looking for in it?
> i used liveupdate to update the virus definitions (the
> latest one was 8/20/03) and then scanned my whole entire
> computer which gave word that there were no errors.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >This isn't typical of Blaster, FWIW.
> >
> >When you get those blue screen errors, it is a good idea
> to record at least
> >the first few lines of what's on there.
> >
> >You may find the details in your system event log, though.
> >
> >Are your Norton virus signatures up to date?
> >
> >You might want to scan with an alternative online
> scanner, just for a second
> >opinion:
> >
> >http://housecall.antivirus.com
> >
> >"Ty" <abc@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:068c01c36c64$4b3a7ec0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> >> well, i turned on my computer today (for the second time
> >> today..the first time everything went fine) and realized
> >> that it is not booting up. i have xp and it went
> through
> >> the data check (stage 1, 2, and 3 checks) and it finds
> >> numerous errors...it the pops up a blue screen giving me
> >> some error..well, i reboot, and then everything works
> fine
> >> until it pops up another error: "invalid boot.ini file
> >> booting from C:\windows" and it reboots. the thing is
> it
> >> keeps doing this (rebooting). is this what the blaster
> >> worm virus does? because i wasn't sure. well, after a
> few
> >> more hours of this, i finally get the computer to log
> onto
> >> my desktop, however my norton antivirus prompts me that
> it
> >> is possible that an attacker might be trying to disable
> my
> >> antivirus...so i did what symantec.com said to do and
> >> everytihng is fine..now that norton works fine (as it
> >> seems), i scanned my whole comp and there were no
> viruses.
> >> does this mean that there are no virus? and that i
> >> shouldn't worry? any info would be greatly appreciated!!
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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