2000Pro error

[JohnCG58]

Have a friend running Microsoft 2000 Pro. As of a couple
days ago system starts to boot..."invalid boot.ini
booting from c:\winnt" comes on screen. Then throws an NT
Authority\System error. with c:\winnt\system32
\services.exe status code 128. Countdown time reboots
system in about 60 seconds and it just keeps looping
through that. Read the KB fix suggestion from MS but the
system won't even boot into SAFE mode to be able to check
registry. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Two separate issues. These may help.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sasser.d.html

Windows 2000 Users: What to Do If Your Computer Has Been Infected by Sasser
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser_print2000.mspx

Also these ones.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-012.mspx

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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| Have a friend running Microsoft 2000 Pro. As of a couple
| days ago system starts to boot..."invalid boot.ini
| booting from c:\winnt" comes on screen. Then throws an NT
| Authority\System error. with c:\winnt\system32
| \services.exe status code 128. Countdown time reboots
| system in about 60 seconds and it just keeps looping
| through that. Read the KB fix suggestion from MS but the
| system won't even boot into SAFE mode to be able to check
| registry. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the tips so far. Downloaded the 2 programs listed in the tech
note links...BUT...the system will not boot into Safe Mode. I am using a DOS
bootdisk created from XP to get to a system prompt. Found that the programs
will not run outside of Windows. HELP!! Any other suggestions?

JohnCG58