WinXP Stop 8086

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

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.

Q

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.

Was it a clean install of XP ?

"Sparky Spartacus" wrote in message
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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

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.

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. 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.

Q

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!

WSZsr wrote:

Was it a clean install of XP ?

Yes, I deleted the former C: partition, defined a new one and formatted
it during Win Setup.

"Sparky Spartacus" wrote in message
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Quaoar wrote:

Sparky Spartacus wrote:


Sparky -

A million pardons if obvious, but you have disabled system restore for
those scans, correct? Otherwise, the _restore directory is not accessible
and can remain infected. Of course, the other side of that is when you
disable SR, you lose all restore points.

Just a thought.


Stew

Sparky Spartacus wrote:
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!

That's it. Yes MS gives itself the right to phone home, just like a
common criminal hacker's trojan. Now, I'm just suspicious that this
update is what blue-screened my two computers and possibly yours. I
have no hard facts.

This can be removed. www.dslreports.com has a long thread that includes
removal instructions. Check the security forum. I have not tried this yet.

Q

S.Lewis wrote:
"Sparky Spartacus" wrote in message
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Quaoar wrote:


Sparky Spartacus wrote:

Sparky -

A million pardons if obvious, but you have disabled system restore for
those scans, correct? Otherwise, the _restore directory is not accessible
and can remain infected. Of course, the other side of that is when you
disable SR, you lose all restore points.

No, good point, thanks, Stew. I already checked System Restore and do
not have a restore point pre WGA, so no loss if I blow them away & start
over.