re: Illegal Operation Spool32 at startup
Friday, July 25, 2008 at 9:29 pm
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Posted by gewg_
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|[...]Started it up with the control key down and entered safe mode.
|Screen has safe mode in all 4 corners.
|The spool32 illegal op box still there. Can't even click to close it.
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|[...]scanreg/fix[...]got to 73% and message came up
|Repairing c:windows\system.dat
|and Windows found errors in system files and was unable to fix.
| Marianne
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I'm thinking the **infected** thing Bob came up with sounds more and more apt.
|[...]Can't scan norton for viruses or anything
|because I can't get rid of that illegal op box.
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:Our computers are networked...
:can I do anything from any of the others to delete any files or add anything?
: Marianne
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If you can't get an OS running well enough to start up apps,
"networked" is like plugging in a broken TV.
If there other computers about, the 1st thing I'd do is pull the HDD,
mount it in another box as a slave,
and try to disinfect it there.
:Is there a way to type in a prompt command to run a virus scan?
:
You're a real glutton for punishment. 8-)
For starters, the app would have to be a DOS app.
These folks still do a DOS AV:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Fprot+DOS
The database is going to be bulky enough that it would have to be burned to a CD,
so you'd need a DOS device driver to read that drive
and you'd have to have a CONFIG.SYS tweaked to load it.
I suspect[1] that Fprot's stuff is an ISO that makes a bootable optical disk
and, if your box can boot to a CD, you'd tweak your CMOS Settings to get that.
...Do you REALLY want to go down this road?
[1] I haven't messed with it to know.
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