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re: Win98SE won't boot after SpyBot message Friday, April 3, 2009 at 6:04 am Posted by don922 (10 messages posted) I have tried to boot into windows using the SafeMode and using the step-by-step confirmation method. SafeMode ends at a fatal exception "the blue-screen" Step-by-step ends with a message that is so quick I can only read "Error loading kernel .........." [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Win98SE won't boot after SpyBot message Friday, April 3, 2009 at 11:56 am Posted by James (782 messages posted) What 2007 ??? [Reply or follow-up to this message] [Error loading kernel ...] Friday, April 3, 2009 at 12:32 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) Here's how your posts look: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1238758078 The first 2 paragraphs here are worth reading: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1217046552 don922 wrote: |[...]SafeMode ends at a fatal exception "the blue-screen" | |Step-by-step ends with a message that is so quick |I can only read "Error loading kernel .........." Your Windoze install is too trashed to bother with.[1] You could spend A LOT of your time AND OURS trying to fix this by applying band-aids, and STILL not get a working system. If you don't have your data backed up to external media, mount the HDD as a slave in another (working) box and back up those files. After that, FDISK the thing to snuff any Boot Sector viruses, FORMAT it, reinstall everything (OS[2] and apps), then copy over your data files. [1] If you were getting further, you could look at BootLog.txt and see what is happening, but here the core of the OS (the kernel) is kaput. "It's dead, Jim." [2] I suggest a modern OS that doesn't ASSIST with self-infections and otherwise crap itself. cache of http://https://shipit.kubuntu.org (If you don't have 256MB of RAM, there are other variants of this FREE OS.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: [Error loading kernel ...] Friday, April 3, 2009 at 10:55 pm Posted by don922 (10 messages posted) Please excuse the bad spacing in my previous messages -- I didn't understand the tick box at the bottom of the messages. @gweg- : I am already using a modern OS. From my 1st message: "My system is dual booting with Puppy Linux which will still boot." I have very little data that I need to save from my C:\ partition so that I can readily get rid of Win98. The only reason I keep it is because I have several programs that are quite old but I can't find anything as good currently available. It seems that I will have to trash Win98 and start again. I can't figure out how I could have gotten a virus because I use Win98 on the internet only to download antivirus updates and adjust the clock with Nistime. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Win98SE won't boot after SpyBot message Friday, April 3, 2009 at 11:17 pm Posted by don922 (10 messages posted) I don't understand what you are asking........ Quote: "What 2007 ???" [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Win98SE won't boot after SpyBot message Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 12:13 am Posted by don922 (10 messages posted) Didn't recognize the link. 2007 is because I live in a remote area and didn't have the internet before mid-2007. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Win98SE won't boot after SpyBot message Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 8:43 am Posted by James (782 messages posted) I posted the "What 2007 ???", because it is a link for the same post from the year 2007 on another Forum. Use Linux to recover the Files you want to save. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Win98SE won't boot after SpyBot message Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 8:53 am Posted by ancien (61 messages posted) A description of what msgsrv32.exe does is at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138708 I see you have posted to the Spybot forum. They should be able to help you. http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=4 Spybot-S&D does save backups of the problems you have fixed so they can be recovered if something stops working. The removed files are put into .zip archives in: C:\Windows\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Recovery\ On Friday, April 3, 2009 at 4:27 am, don922 wrote: >I received the following criptic message this morning: > > >Spybot - Search & Destroy has encountered and terminated a process that is listed >as part of a malicious software. > > Process ID 4294841615 > Filename MSGSRV32.EXE > Found in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ > Identified as (this was blank) > > >I opened Explorer and looked at the file. It looked okay so I didn't do anything >with it. I closed Explorer and I selected OK in the SpyBot message and shutdown Win98. > > >Later I tried to boot into Win98SE it crashed and will not boot even in the Safe >Mode. My system is dual booting with Puppy Linux which will still boot. I cannot >find MSGSRV32.EXE in the C:\ drive when I look for it in Linux. > > >Would missing MSGSRV32.EXE cause Win98SE not to boot? > > >Did SpyBot do something with MSGSRV32.EXE? Assuming that SB quaranteened or deleted >the file where would it go and how do I put it back in my Win98 system? How can I >find a new copy of it on the Win98SE disk? > > >I'm kind of lost and I really don't want to have to reinstall windows at this time! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: [Error loading kernel ...] Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 3:37 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) don922 wrote: |Please excuse the bad spacing in my previous messages -- |I didn't understand the tick box at the bottom of the messages. | Between the Webmaster making defaults that are easier on his bandwidth costs --but more difficult on posters and his not doing a good job explaining about HTML formatting, folks naturally ASSuME they're OK. 8-( Myself, I can't imagine clicking *Post* without re-reading what I wrote --preferably in formatted form. |I am already using a modern OS. From my 1st message: |"My system is dual booting with Puppy Linux which will still boot." | Yeah---I remember reading that now. {forehead palm} |I have very little data that I need to save from my C:\ partition |so that I can readily get rid of Win98. | As James said, you can access those under Linux. Linux understands FAT32 (and about any other filesystem ever created). |The only reason I keep it is because I have several programs that are quite old |but I can't find anything as good currently available. | Tried running those under WINE? (No M$ OS needed--no Microsoft Tax(tm).) http://google.com/search?q=WineHQ (GPL'd Free Software) VirtualBox (with a working Windoze install) is another way to avoid rebooting. (Again, a fair amount of RAM is required for modern stuff like a VM.) http://google.com/search?q=VirtualBox This is GPL'd Free Software as well. |It seems that I will have to trash Win98 and start again. | Be careful. Installs of old M$ OSes overwrite the Boot Sector. As soon as you start to reinstall W98, your Boot Manager will be toast. cache of http://www.linuxworld.com/events/2008/ST5-080701_01:08:42.pdf (Indexed to Page 8) Your Linux install (if on the same physical disk as your primary Windoze partition) may get nuked as well. (M$'s FDISK is very stupid; Linux's FDISK is a better choice.) |I can't figure out how I could have gotten a virus |because I use Win98 on the internet only to download antivirus updates |and adjust the clock with Nistime. | Do you run a firewall? Don't forget: Just because you only want Port 80 the other 65,000 ports are open--unless blocked/stealthed. ...and there's always the CD drive (and AutoRun) e.g. http://google.com/search?q=Sony.rootkit [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Win98SE won't boot after SpyBot message Monday, April 6, 2009 at 5:08 am Posted by don922 (10 messages posted) @James: Perhaps you misread the date of the other post. I joined that forum in 2007. The date of that other post was: 2009-04-03, 10:34 #1 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Win98SE won't boot after SpyBot message Monday, April 6, 2009 at 5:53 am Posted by don922 (10 messages posted) ancien: Thank you for your reply. I didn't get any help from the Spybot Forum. I looked for the msgsrv32.exe file using Puppy Linux and it was gone. I couldn't find it on the Win98SE cd so I reinstalled windows. Everything seems to be working okay. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Win98SE won't boot after SpyBot message Monday, April 6, 2009 at 8:53 am Posted by ancien (61 messages posted) All's well that ends well, I guess. Thanks for posting the resolution. Good luck. On Monday, April 6, 2009 at 5:53 am, don922 wrote: >ancien: Thank you for your reply. > >I didn't get any help from the Spybot Forum. > >I looked for the msgsrv32.exe file using Puppy Linux and it was gone. I couldn't >find it on the Win98SE cd so I reinstalled windows. Everything seems to be working >okay. 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