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I posted earlier about losing the ability to share drives from our server
after removing the gaobot virus.
Steve kindly posted some recommendations, but they did not work. I have
discovered a couple of other things, though, and I am hopeful it might
elicit some more ideas from someone.
The server service fails to start. The Event Log says that it has hung in a
start-pending state. This would be the reason why no network shares are
available. Of course, without the server service starting, a lot of other
services fail, too.
I also notice that the spooler service is chewing up tons of memory. It
just goes up and up and up. I just rebooted about 15 minutes ago, and the
spooler service is at 100MB and counting. This does not look right to me.
I have tried one major thing: I put the Win2k server CD in while the server
was running, and I clicked on install/upgrade. I went throught the
"upgrade" process, thinking that this might rewrite all system files,
including any which might be corrupt.
No luck.
Would it be useful to boot off the CD and run the Repair? I'm not quite
sure what this would do that the "upgrade" would not do.
Also, would it make sense to copy a new service.exe and new spooler.exe to
the system32 directory?
Thanks
after removing the gaobot virus.
Steve kindly posted some recommendations, but they did not work. I have
discovered a couple of other things, though, and I am hopeful it might
elicit some more ideas from someone.
The server service fails to start. The Event Log says that it has hung in a
start-pending state. This would be the reason why no network shares are
available. Of course, without the server service starting, a lot of other
services fail, too.
I also notice that the spooler service is chewing up tons of memory. It
just goes up and up and up. I just rebooted about 15 minutes ago, and the
spooler service is at 100MB and counting. This does not look right to me.
I have tried one major thing: I put the Win2k server CD in while the server
was running, and I clicked on install/upgrade. I went throught the
"upgrade" process, thinking that this might rewrite all system files,
including any which might be corrupt.
No luck.
Would it be useful to boot off the CD and run the Repair? I'm not quite
sure what this would do that the "upgrade" would not do.
Also, would it make sense to copy a new service.exe and new spooler.exe to
the system32 directory?
Thanks