error at startup

[Andrea Moon]

Last week, I had turned on my machine and received the
following messages:

Terminating thread due to stack overflow problem
VxD - consumed too much space
Increse setting of 'MinSps' in SYSTEM.INI or
remove recently installed VxD's
There are currently 5 Sp's allocated

I noticed that a 'patch' was being installed from
Mircosoft that I received in my inbox. Could this have
been a problem after it was installed?

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

Sounds like you have the Swen virus if you installed a patch via email.
Microsoft NEVER provides patches via any other avenue than Windows Update or
the security website. If you receive email saying that it is from Microsoft
then it is most likely a virus.

Check with your AV vendor for information on removing Swen if you have been
infected as there are a few variants of it out at this time.