RE: ntoskrnl.exe issue

From: Curt Purdy (purdyat_private)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2001 - 11:17:53 PDT

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    99% of the times I have seen this is when there is nothing wrong with NT or
    the disk at all.  It almost always is with the boot.ini settings not going
    to the right partition.  This can result from a number of reasons including
    one drive in a multi-drive setup being offline causing the rdisk number to
    be off one.  Reseating the connectors on the drive/motherboard may fix it.
    
    Curt Purdy
    Information Security Engineer
    DP Solutions
    purdyat_private
    
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    "There is no patch for stupidity."
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: R M [mailto:whisk3yat_private]
    Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:05 AM
    To: incidentsat_private
    Subject: ntoskrnl.exe issue
    
    
    All
    
    We have a w2k small business server installed with Exchange 2000, ie 5.5,
    ISA 2000 [acting as a proxy server + packet filter], webshield & netshield
    4.5.
    
    The ISA packet filter was configured to permit outbound http and two way
    smtp traffic.   2 of our servers crashed yesterday afternoon and we are now
    receiving error messages about the ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt.
    
    This is odd considering the two servers went down at similar times in two
    different remote locations.
    
    The anti-virus software was bang up-to-date with the latest engine and dat
    files but I still think this may be some sort of vulnerability - can any one
    help please?
    
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