Re: Help please! Stop Error

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"nybarton" <mynews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jim......assuming it is in fact a driver which you say it must be given
the Page Fault message, then why didn't the malicious driver(s) show up
after "unearthing" every possible bit of information of ALL drivers in
"%windir%\system32\drivers"? I directed that ALL hidden files and folders
be shown, that ALL file extensions be shown, and that ALL protected
operating system files be shown, and that the contents of ALL system files
be shown. I then checked the attributes to search for hidden attributes
(HA) as well as product info, company and date. Nothing came up. Are you
saying that malware can still be present? The Multi_AV site is down and
the only place where it can be is from a European site and the
instructions are either in Swiss or German, neither of which I can
understand.
All this is very interesting, but what you did was merely identify all of
the drivers and who claims
to have furnished them. Malware can easily infect files which leaving the
info that you found
alone.

There just has to be a GOOD spyware detection and repair program that can
handle this.
There is no spyware detection and repair program which detects all forms of
spyware. Instead,
what needs to be done is to run several because some detect a given subset
of malware while others
detect a different subset.
When I ran the free version of Ad-Aware, the system crashed immediately
with the aforementioned Page Fault stop error. All virus scans complete
without incident, it's just when the scans get to the malware that the
system crashes.
As another poster mentioned, there are programs besides drivers which must
execute out of non paged pool. It can be quite difficult to
determine exactly which one(s) are causing the problem.
Jim
"Jim" <j.n@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"nybarton" <mynews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Apparently, it DOES apply to my system. I followed the instructions
under "More Information" to see if my system is infected with such
malicious spyware/drivers and it did not reveal any such infected
spyware. So, here I am again back to square one.

"glee" <glee29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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See if the info in this article applies to your system:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894278
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"nybarton" <mynews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well, it seems I have a major problems somewhere and it appears to be
spyware or malware. I downloaded and ran the free version of Ad-Aware
2007 and within a minute of it's scan, I got the same Stop error and
Windows shut down. I started back up again and ran a free scan of
Registry Optimizer.......WHEW! It didn't even get started before the
Stop error hit again. I rebooted and uninstalled BOTH programs
immediately. So, here I am again.

It appears I have no active viruses because ALL virus scans complete
with nothing detected. I just can't clean up adware, malware or
spyware.....something is interfering with those scans and/or something
is seriously corrupted in the registry.

Help!


"Patrick Keenan" <test@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"nybarton" <mynews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Actually, I just ran AdwareAlert which detected over 600
"infections", including a slew of registry infections that require
cleaning. Just wondering how good this program is before I spend $20
to register it. This program was once recommended to me by my ISP
provider, so I'm sort of inclined to go with it if others have had
good results.

Don't bother.

The vast majority of what it's reporting is probably cookies, and you
can simply delete those for free. Also clean the temp folders and
browser caches.

ccleaner, www.ccleaner.com can automate this pretty well.

HTH
-pk



"nass" <nass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"nybarton" wrote:

I'm running WinXP, SP2. I recently downloaded and installed
McAfee Security
Suite which is offered free by my ISP (Comcast). For years prior,
I used
Norton AV and never had a problem with it. Since my NAV
subscription was
running out, I went with McAfee. I removed NAV completely using
the Norton
Removal Tool, downloaded and installed the McAfee Security Suite.
There are
no incompatible programs running that would interfere with McAfee
Virus
Scan. The McAfee protection status is fine, but the scan feature
has the
following problem which the McAfee techs have been unable to
resolve. They
said Microsoft has a solution for this problem and told me to
contact
Microsoft.



The problem:

When running a complete scan of my system using McAfee Virus Scan,
the scan
proceeds uninterrupted until it reaches a point somewhere around
the 110,000
file mark. That's when Windows abruptly shuts down and I get the
following
screen:



"A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to
prevent
damage to your computer.

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

Tech Information

***STOP: Ox00000050 (OxFFFFDFF8, Ox00000000, Ox80550211,
Ox00000000)"



Before posting here, I went to the Microsoft Knowledge Base and
pulled up
the following article:



KB Article 903251 - The HaxDoor virus may cause a "STOP
0x00000050" or
"STOP 0x0000008e" error message



May I add one more piece of info. When bypassing the program scan
and
running the McAfee Free Online Scan (which checks all files for
viruses
only, but not for spyware or malware which the program does
check), there is
no interruption and the scan completes with no virus detection.



I need help! I'm not very computer savvy...I'm afraid to fool
with the
Registry. Can someone tell me what they think may be the problem
here and if
there's a workaround to the problem. Do you think it's this
HaxDoor virus
and is there some way I can tell if it's in my system?



Many, many thanks.

I just have to solve the exact problem but Vice versa with Norton
not Mcafee
and it was a nasty malware installed by a trusted software, so try
to
download either AutoRuns from Microsot and see what is running in
the
background or download the HijhackThis and send the report to one
of many
forums.
HTH.
nass
------
www.nasstec.co.uk









Neither Ad-Aware nor Spybot causes my systems to crash. There must be
malware somewhere. By the way that error about a page fault in the non
paged pool can only come from a driver because non paged pool is where
they exist.

Observing that you have only run McAfee and an MS AV program, it would
seem premature to assume that you have no spyware. Proving that you have
no spyware is equivalent to proving a negative. This act is impossible.
What you have done is that neither program can detect malware based on
its internal list of malware to locate. This leaves unanswered the
question of "how many can you find"?

To supplement what you have already done, obtain David Lipman's MULTI_AV
package which runs 4 AV programs.

Jim





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