Re: WinXP Stop 8086

Quaoar wrote:

Sparky Spartacus wrote:

Quaoar wrote:

Sparky Spartacus wrote:

I reinstalled XP Pro from my Dell CD on 27 May and twice since I have gotten a Windows Stop 8086 error after applying a "critical" XP update, today's was KB886903, a security patch for .NET w/SP1. I can't find anything on the Microsoft site (using advanced search of XP) for a Stop8086.

Anyone else seen this, have any ideas?

TIA

This and your previous post make me suspicious that you have a browser hijack, virus, trojan, etc. I would immediately scan with everything you have, perhaps in Safe Mode. You can also try www.trendmicro.com and their on-line scanners.

Thanks, I was wondering about that myself.

I scanned the computer this morning with NAV's latest virus definitions and ran both Spybot & Ad-Aware 03 June. No harm in doing it all again.

Scanned system again after your previous reply; neither NAV, nor Ad-AWare nor Spybot found anything serious (Spybot found a couple of tracking cookies from Doubleclick & Advertising.com).

When you installed Windows Updates, did the updates include the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tray tool wgatray.exe? Check Windows\System32\ and see if you have that in there, version 1.5...

The reason I ask is that I've had almost simultaneous stop code 8 errors on two computers within the last hour, and this is what I suspect is the cause.

I had a Stop D1 a few days ago after applying a Windows Update; but like the Stop 8086, it didn't reoccur (not yet anyway).

This little app has today been found by security specialists to surreptitiously phone home to Bill Gates and I think my firewalls killed it and induced the stop errors. Your error might be related.

You da man! :)

It's there and there's also a WGAErrLog.txt file dated at my last boot containing:

D446F964-508-80004005_D446F964-441-80004005_D446F964-508-80004005_D446F964-441-80004005_6AA6ADEF-541-80004005_D446F964-508-80004005_D446F964-475-80004005_6AA6ADEF-560-80004005_D446F964-508-80004005_D446F964-441-80004005_6AA6ADEF-573-80004005_D446F964-508-

which is gobbledygook to me.

Is WGA the software I recently read about whose EULA gives MS the right to look at anything on my computer & do anything it wants? If so, I don't think it can be uninstalled (it's not in Add/Remove programs, nor do I see a folder for it in the \WINDOWS folder). Looks as though WGA was installed on 27 May when I was reinstalling XP. I may be reinstalling XP again this weekend.

Crap and double crap! :(
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