Blue Screen & Hangup

98SE loads to desktop. Then my firewall asks for permission to let RPCSS.exe go on line. Shortly after I get the message: OE has occured at 0028:C0049810 in VxD VFar (01) plus 0007838. This was called from 0028:C1837EBOin Vxd Voltrack (04) plus 0000043. It may be possible to continue etc.
I can start in Safe Mode. Alt-Cont-Del after OE shows Explorer, Pdisk, Stimon and systray as active. After awhile Explorer or msgsrv not responding comes up.
I installed a CD RW and everything was fine. I deleted . after bachking up the files to CD a number of directories and files. They were pictures. I ran Adaware and found a number of items. McAfee 7.0 was installed and found one trojan and cleaned it. Stinger found nothing. Spy Bot found some items. Sys File Checker found one file setupX and it was replaced.
Before the above OE and checks all ran OK The last thing I did was delete a directory called C (C:\C) and go on liine to AOL Com. The problem started after that.
I have a second computer 98SE that I can use. I need to make a boot disk w\cd support in case I have to replace the C directory (C:\C). I also need to get Emergency dats to use with McAfee 7.0
Any help on any of the above will be greatly appreciated.

 

If you do not allow McAffee to load at start-up, do the errors
not occur ?
regards

 

Mc Afee isnot in the start. I removed the check matks from all the McAfee entries. The Directory C (C:\C) that I deleted was 168 Meg
and appeared to be a duplicate or ghost of the original HD. I get the System busy Blue screen. Then black screem when I press any key. Is it possible that Win98 is working on the hard drive to do what ever for the deleted 168 <eg. I appreciate your help.

 

98 really doesn't need Windows Remote Procedure Call, if RPCSS.exe is not called from Msconfig, go to this page, and get the DCOMbobulator, free, it will disable it for you.

 

Thank you all. It appears to be fixed. I DL from McAfee the file dailyscan opened it and ADDED scan32.exe from my exisating McA files. Ran the progeam from DOS and sweep one found one Trojan and cleaned it. Sweep two found three more and cleaned them. Sweep three came up clean.
It was my daughters computer and she had downloaded a bunch of .exe files and they were all over the place. She had Dir My Documents, sub to it Directory My Docments and sub Director three My Docs. Her desktop had icons for 30 DL exe programs for screensavers, fonts you name it. My guess is that the Firewall tried to stop a lot of outgoing traffic and just stoped Win98.
In any event all seems OK now and so far I have cleaned over 1.5 gig of "stuff" off her machine. She even DL and opened stuff in a directory called C (C:\C).
She thought she was protected by a AV program, but it wasn't updated for virus infoprmation since Jan 2000.
I got the machine running then Word wouldn.t start, so deleted normal.dot and it is OK.
Thank you for your help.

 

oldbear
Thank you for posting back.
I noticed that you removed a lot of stuff detected by McAffee, along with the icons for installing things on the desktop. There may be something else still there.
You might be interested in SpyBot Search & Destroy, free. It looks for spyware/adware/malware that McAffee will not detect. After you download Spybot and install, update and then do the scan.