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From: CNews on 9 Aug 2008 00:19 A friend of mine thinks he has a bios virus. He had a message about virtumonde, then his XP crashed. Since then, even after swapping hard disks he gets the following error whenever he tries to reload XP file ntfs.sys caused an unexpected error (4096) at line 5091 in d:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup.c Any way to tell if virus or bad equipment CR
From: David H. Lipman on 9 Aug 2008 06:45 From: "CNews" <news(a)nowhere.com> | A friend of mine thinks he has a bios virus. He had a message about | virtumonde, then his XP crashed. Since then, even after swapping hard disks | he gets the following error whenever he tries to reload XP | file ntfs.sys caused an unexpected error (4096) at line 5091 in | d:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup.c | Any way to tell if virus or bad equipment | CR There are no BIOS viruses. Vitumonde is adware associated with the Vundo Trojan. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: Ben Myers on 11 Aug 2008 10:39 "CNews" <news(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message news:cX8nk.6668$np7.248(a)flpi149.ffdc.sbc.com... > A friend of mine thinks he has a bios virus. He had a message about > virtumonde, then his XP crashed. Since then, even after swapping hard disks > he gets the following error whenever he tries to reload XP > file ntfs.sys caused an unexpected error (4096) at line 5091 in > d:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup.c > Any way to tell if virus or bad equipment Tell him to clean his Windows XP CD. If this doesn't help, he might try unplugging the computer, opening the case and removing and reseating the memory modules. Ben
From: Russg on 11 Aug 2008 13:08 "CNews" <> wrote in message news: > A friend of mine thinks he has a bios virus. He had a message about > virtumonde, then his XP crashed. Since then, even after swapping hard disks > he gets the following error whenever he tries to reload XP > file ntfs.sys caused an unexpected error (4096) at line 5091 in > d:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup.c > > Any way to tell if virus or bad equipment > > CR Sounds to me like a faulty recover installation on a D: drive partition. Are you sure you don't have some CDs to restore to factory condition? You never know if a restore system works until it is too late to do anything about it. Maybe buy a XP install CD, very expensive.
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