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re: Illegal Operation Spool32 at startup
Friday, July 25, 2008 at 6:07 pm
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Posted by bob wells (1264 messages posted)


Keith,

May also be a Trojan! Trojan moves Spool32.exe  from C:\windows\System, to C:\Windows, 
plus a bunch of other malware files.

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_JUNTADOR.K&VSect=T



Just relaying the method I use to access Boot menu. Control key does not work on 
all systems AFAIK. F8 seems universal. 

If I'm mistaken but achieves same result, What's your point?



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On Friday, July 25, 2008 at 5:59 pm, Keith Stanier wrote:
>Marianne wrote:
>|When I shut it down and start-up again, held control |key down and chose to
>|use prompts.
>
>bob wells wrote:
>Try booting into Safe Mode. Reboot and hold the F8 key down till Boot Menu appears.
>
>I would think its a printer problem as you've stated Bob.
>|Select Safe mode & hit enter.
>
>Marianne has already said she is holding the Ctrl key as it boots which is just the
>same at intermitantly pressing F8.




Written in response to:
re: Illegal Operation Spool32 at startup (Keith Stanier: Friday, July 25, 2008 at 5:59 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Illegal Operation Spool32 at startup (Marianne: Friday, July 25, 2008 at 8:13 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Illegal Operation Spool32 at startup (Marianne: Fri, Jul 25, 2008, 4:32 pm)
-re: Illegal Operation Spool32 at startup (bob wells: Fri, Jul 25, 2008, 4:50 pm)
-re: Illegal Operation Spool32 at startup (Keith Stanier: Fri, Jul 25, 2008, 5:59 pm)
-re: Illegal Operation Spool32 at startup (bob wells: Fri, Jul 25, 2008, 6:07 pm)
*re: Illegal Operation Spool32 at startup (Marianne: Fri, Jul 25, 2008, 8:13 pm)
-re: Illegal Operation Spool32 at startup (Marianne: Fri, Jul 25, 2008, 8:21 pm)
*re: Illegal Operation Spool32 at startup (gewg_: Fri, Jul 25, 2008, 9:29 pm)
*re: Illegal Operation Spool32 at startup (bob wells: Sat, Jul 26, 2008, 10:47 am)
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