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Please send a program that will destroy the partition and remove the virus. I am paying for protection from this sort of thing. Please do not tell me that I have to take apart the network, format all four hard disks independently, and then rebuild the system. I uninstalled McAfee and tried another virus scan system, but it also found nothing.
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I tried the McAfee free scan technical support sent, but it found nothing.
All I know is that it crashes my computer every time McAfee tries to scan for viruses.
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It is hiding behind a partition that Windows respects. I can't send the virus to the lab as one of McAfee's technical support people suggested in live chat because I don't have a file isolated containing the virus. I tried starting up a computer with DOS 6.22, but it couldn't do anything with the NTFS. I tried to use DEBUG to read the hard disk directly and find out what is behind the partition, but Windows XP doesn't allow that. I don't know what it is doing on the other computers, but they also have been showing strange behavior lately. The virus and the partition must also have stored itself on the other three hard disks. The computer I was working with is one of four on a home network. After I reinstalled Windows and McAfee the identical problem of stopping instead of scanning for viruses appeared again! I therefore physically removed the disk drive and substituted another. I had to use FDISK to remove the partition and then I formatted it. When I tried to format the disk, I learned that there is a 7-kbyte partition that I never put there. If you need to use safe mode to recover or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select advanced startup options, and then select safe mode.
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If a driver is identified in the stop message, disable the driver or check with the manufacturer for a driver update.Ĭheck with your hardware vendor for any BIOS updates.ĭisable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If the screen appears again, follow these steps:Ĭheck to see if you have adequate disk space. If this is the first time you have seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. This did not stop me from getting the following blue stop screen every time I asked manually for a virus scan, or whenever McAfee did a scheduled scan: I converted the drive from FAT32 to NTFS as suggested. Microsoft Windows XP Home edition Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp sp2 qdr.070227-2254 Service Pack 2)įile System: FAT32, C-drive capacity 5.57 GB
McShell.exe, McAfee MISP Shell version 7.2.142.0, Product Version 7,2,0,0 Now for the technical information: McAfee copyright 2006, consisting of Security Center, Virus Scan, Personal Firewall, and Site Advisor. It is a virus that attacks McAfee rather than the host computer directly, and is previously unknown to McAfee. In short, something alters the prefetch versions of McAfee files, and this causes the crash when scanning starts. There was also a file of invalid size, \windows\temp\mcmsc-z7KMvD6xjrnMolp. CHK file is yet another version, but it has the MCVSSHLD.EXE name imbedded in it. I saved the first file and it is different from the pristine version. One such file in \Windows\Prefetch was and another was. Then there are lost chains that it converts into a file with a name Windows invents, FILE0000.CHK. Almost always it names a McAfee file, says that the first allocation unit is not valid, and truncates the entry. Usually after an error stop and restart Windows scans the directory structure of the disk. I ran the McAfee Free Scan and it found nothing. I ran this iteratively until after the run it had found nothing to remove. First they sent me MCPR.exe to do a better removal job than the Windows removal service. I got help from the online chat technical support people. Now I know that it starts when McAfee scans my computer for viruses, whether automatically or because I manually called for a scan. After that I thought I had the problem whipped, until next Friday morning when it started again at 4 AM. I was only able to break the cycle by starting in safe mode, unistalling McAfee, restarting in normal mode with no protection, and downloading McAfee again from the web site.
At 9 AM I discovered that Windows had been stopping and restarting since 4 AM. Two and a half weeks ago on Friday April 27 I kept on hearing the Windows XP opening fanfare interwoven with my nightmares.