Hi All, This is is off-topic, but the people here seemed to always be ahead of the game with these kinds of problems. I wanted to know if what I'm experiencing is some sort of trojan or virus, or just bad luck.
We have had two unrelated systems (one desktop, the other a notebook, on different networks in different states) experiencing the same problem with a week of each other. The short description of the problem is this: The system hive under Windows XP Pro becomes corrupt (when you boot, this leads to a message about \windows\system32\config\system being unreadable). You can replace the system hive (typically, you boot to the Recovery Console and then copy over the system hive from \windows\system32\repair), but that version only works a short while before also becoming corrupt. If you get the System hive to be somewhat stable and boot into Safe Mode, the System Restore Point software works sporadically or not at all. Other services and programs seem to crash randomly or not load at all. Hardware failure has been ruled out. There are no major new software installations. The systems had been operating fine for at least a year previously. Any ideas? The fact that the problems persist (if the System hive just was corrupt from a power failure, for example, then it would stay fixed after being replaced) suggests a software issue. Since there is no new software installation on either system, that makes me suspect a trojan or backdoor or something. Sorry for being off-topic, but I do appreciate your help. Thanks, Ben BC Web --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
