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Posted by John Doe on June 3, 2008, 11:04 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options It does not show up in msconfig, nor sysinternals' process explorer,
autoruns, etc.
It's in the boot sequence somewhere; can anyone knowledgeable about the XP
boot sequence shed any light on this? Where can I start looking for this
reference & remove it?
STOP: c0000135 {Unable To Locate Component}
This application has failed to start because baseokfrf32 was not found.
Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
> Try msconfig.exe to avoid running this file at start-up.
>
> If you are unsure how to do this a web search for msconfig +windows
> +startup
> will find you a tutorial on troubleshooting start-up problems.
> --
> Regards,
> Newell White
>
>
> "John Doe" wrote:
>
>> There is some sort of infector going around that injects itself into the
>> boot sequence of XP that randomly names itself "base????32" (where the
>> last
>> 4 or 5 letters are random, but the first 4 are always base & the last 2
>> are
>> always 32) & causes the machine to fail on boot up because it cannot find
>> this file:
>>
>> STOP: c0000135 {Unable To Locate Component}
>> This application has failed to start because baseokfrf32 was not found.
>> Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
>>
>> This usually occurs after removing the winantivituspro infector (clearly
>> the
>> anti-malware people haven't figured out how to remove this properly
>> yet!).
>>
>> Any ideas on how to repair this issue without having to do an XP repair
>> install? Or where XP gets the command to look for the file? I can't
>> seem
>> to find a "boot.sys" or any such file that references it, and obviously
>> can't go into the registry to look for it . . .
>>
>> I've tried going into the Recovery Console & doing fixboot, fixmbr,
>> chkdsk
>> /p /r etc but no good.
>>
>>
>>
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