IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

[mikedavisonrio]

I got virus through an email. I was using avast. I was told by a friend to buy NOD32 because this is the best on the market. I did this and this morning I did my first scan. My XP Sp2 on a P4 3.2 HT found a virus -"unknown threat probably `something` heur" (I cannot remember the exact wordage) Send the virus to ESET. The send button was greyed out.
Then I removed the virus, and restarted the computer,(as requested) All I got was the PC starting up and closing down non-stop. I started up the PC again in safe mode and got a message that said "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL STOP 0x0000000A"
Ive never seen this before and this has something to do with NOD32, looks like it made the virus situation worse.
What can I do to get round this problem, as my PC can't get past the Bios setup.
Mike

[Big Apple]

{QUOTE-> I got virus through an email. I was using avast. I was told by a friend to buy NOD32 because this is the best on the market. I did this and this morning I did my first scan. My XP Sp2 on a P4 3.2 HT found a virus -"unknown threat probably `something` heur" (I cannot remember the exact wordage) Send the virus to ESET. The send button was greyed out.
Then I removed the virus, and restarted the computer,(as requested) All I got was the PC starting up and closing down non-stop. I started up the PC again in safe mode and got a message that said "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL STOP 0x0000000A"
Ive never seen this before and this has something to do with NOD32, looks like it made the virus situation worse.
What can I do to get round this problem, as my PC can't get past the Bios setup.
Mike <-QUOTE}

You're infected. Try to start in Safe Mode and use the commandline scanner from your Nod32 and hope it's cleaned. Otherwise......format, I'm afraid.

[mikedavisonrio]

Safe Mode the PC stops. I cant get near to safe mode.>:(
So what your saying is that NOD32 does not work.
Mike

[Big Apple]

{QUOTE-> Safe Mode the PC stops. I cant get near to safe mode.>:(
So what your saying is that NOD32 does not work.
Mike <-QUOTE}

I'm afraid you're badly infected and a format C: is the only option in my opinion. A lot of work, but..... Ever heard of making an image? I don't know what your computer knowledge is. But for now: format, re-install Windows and everything else. If you don't know how.....get proper help!

[mikedavisonrio]

>:( Point taken

[Big Apple]

{QUOTE-> >:( Point taken <-QUOTE}

Good luck and I'm sorry I can't help you from here.....I live in The Netherlands.

[cdr]

??? I am wondering if Dr. Web Cure-It would be of help here. This suggestion might be completely absurd, but just wondering if anyone can help the OP with this. I don't know enough about dealing with virus infections to be able to say.
Good luck!

[Big Apple]

{QUOTE-> ??? I am wondering if Dr. Web Cure-It would be of help here. This suggestion might be completely absurd, but just wondering if anyone can help the OP with this. I don't know enough about dealing with virus infections to be able to say.
Good luck! <-QUOTE}

He can't get his pc started up anymore. Perhaps with a start-up disk, buth then he would have to have Cure-it on his system.

[Big Apple]

{QUOTE-> >:( Point taken <-QUOTE}

Can you use a start-up disk? Or start it with a cd/dvd?

[cdr]

:-\ Ok, I got it. That is a shame. Thanks for the information.

[anotherjack]

{QUOTE-> All I got was the PC starting up and closing down non-stop. I started up the PC again in safe mode and got a message that said "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL STOP 0x0000000A"
Ive never seen this before and this has something to do with NOD32, looks like it made the virus situation worse.
What can I do to get round this problem, as my PC can't get past the Bios setup.
Mike <-QUOTE}

Mike - In the times that I've seen the "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" error, it's been hardware related, often times something on the motherboard got turned back on (in my case one of the onboard NICs). If you really think it's NOD that caused the problem, you can boot from an XP CD to the Recovery Console, then rename a couple of the NOD32 files that are loaded at boot. For v2.7 renaming C:\Program Files\Eset\nod32krn.exe and C:\Program Files\Eset\nod32kui.exe should at least take NOD out of the picture enough to see if that's the issue.

What makes you think that it's a NOD32 issue, except for the fact that it occurred after installing NOD and deleting an infected file? Do you recall the name of the file that was infected? It may be a case of a Windows system file that was infected, removed by NOD as it was uncleanable, thereby rendering your system unbootable. If that's the case, you may be able to restore that file from a non infected PC to get up and running again.

HTH

[DavidCo]

anotherjack beat me to it.
If you 'google' that error message you will find lots of possibilities.

[YeOldeStonecat]

That error message is usually related to a driver issue, faulty or currupted driver. Interrupt request in the memory when attempting to load the driver. Nothing to do with the old hardware IRQs like IRQ7 for LPT1, IRQ 11 for a NIC, etc. And I've not seen it happen relating to a virus either.

[BBKing212]

I had this error with outpost firewall. This error is most of the time driver related.

[GAN]

How about trying the last known good thing or use a Windows CD and the recovery options instead of a complete reformat. Then you should be able to enter safe mode and do a complete scan there and to a windows repair installation. To be 100% sure your PC is clean i guess a reformat is the only way though.
What would be useful to know is what files that was infected and what actions that was taken. If nod32 deleted a file needed for windows to boot maybe to replace that file could make the PC boot again.

[SystemJunkie]

{QUOTE-> I got virus through an email. I was using avast. I was told by a friend to buy NOD32 because this is the best on the market <-QUOTE}Nonsense it is not the best, actually Bit Defender and AntiVir own the crown.

[Big Apple]

{QUOTE-> How about trying the last known good thing or use a Windows CD and the recovery options instead of a complete reformat. Then you should be able to enter safe mode and do a complete scan there and to a windows repair installation. To be 100% sure your PC is clean i guess a reformat is the only way though.
What would be useful to know is what files that was infected and what actions that was taken. If nod32 deleted a file needed for windows to boot maybe to replace that file could make the PC boot again. <-QUOTE}

This is all ok for an experienced pc user......if not.....format or get help!

[SoCalReviews]

{QUOTE-> I got virus through an email. I was using avast. I was told by a friend to buy NOD32 because this is the best on the market. I did this and this morning I did my first scan. My XP Sp2 on a P4 3.2 HT found a virus -"unknown threat probably `something` heur" (I cannot remember the exact wordage) Send the virus to ESET. The send button was greyed out.
Then I removed the virus, and restarted the computer,(as requested) All I got was the PC starting up and closing down non-stop. I started up the PC again in safe mode and got a message that said "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL STOP 0x0000000A"
Ive never seen this before and this has something to do with NOD32, looks like it made the virus situation worse.
What can I do to get round this problem, as my PC can't get past the Bios setup.
Mike <-QUOTE}

I have seen this problem also and it can be related to a hardware problem or a driver problem. The last time I saw that problem on a machine I worked on it was an incorrect jumper setting for a secondary IDE hard drive that was connected to an on board (on the motherboard) IDE RAID controller. Changing the hard drive jumper to the proper setting solved the problem. I have read that the "IRQL_NOT LESS..." problem can also be related to faulty RAM chips in which case you would replace the RAM. I am not saying that your problem is hardware related but you should be aware that this error message can be the result of many different problems. If your issue is hardware related then re-installing Windows or using any other software restoration method will not solve the problem.

There is a possibility that the virus changed or infected an essential hardware driver or Windows system file. (Hopefully the virus did not infect the boot sector of that drive). The preferred method to restore your system is to boot in safe mode to do a system restore. Make sure the virus is removed or you could be re-enabling or restoring the virus. If that doesn't work you can try to do a system repair using the Windows installation disk but you might find that this method has its drawbacks. If you can't repair your Windows installation and you have critical data on your hard drive that you need then another possibility would be to purchase a new hard drive and do a new installation of Windows on that new drive (after completely disconnecting the old drive). Make sure you have all the Windows updates done and then install your security software including NOD AV on that new Windows installation. Install some of the common free anti-spyware programs on it.

If your old drive that had the virus on it still works then you should be able to connect it to your system as a secondary hard drive. You will want to run a complete scan on it with your anti-malware programs including NOD. Scan it with NOD and then run as many online anti-virus scans as you can on that secondary drive. Then run a scan with all your installed common free antispyware programs on it like Spybot S&D, SuperAntispyware free, AVG antispyware trial, etc. After making sure that secondary drive is clean then you could retrieve your critical data from it for your new Windows installation on the new drive. Then you could format the old secondary drive and use it as a data drive or run backup software and use it for a system image backup.

If you have never done this kind of PC work then you might want to get the help of an experienced PC tech with this. This isn't that difficult to do this but it can be time consuming. Remember that if your data on that drive isn't that important you could just try to re-install Windows (and all your programs) on that same hard drive that is currently giving you Windows error messages.

[DavidCo]

Mike
{QUOTE-> as my PC can't get past the Bios setup <-QUOTE}
Probably a silly question, but can you get into setup.
Just trying to rule out the mobo.

[SystemJunkie]

{QUOTE-> I have read that the "IRQL_NOT LESS..." problem can also be related to faulty RAM chips in which case you would replace the RAM. <-QUOTE}This story is so outdated it´s only a deception trick, every freak outthere will high likely notice if ram is broken! Many guys like you wanted to make me believe that my Corsair XXL ram would have a problem, this ram is the best available and won´t even have a malfunction in 100 years. Don´t deceive and confuse people with irritating stories like that, focus on malware or driver problems.

{QUOTE-> I got virus through an email <-QUOTE}Mike thats the problem don´t let confuse yourself by those ram junkies, I had endless timewasting warflames because of silly comments like above, focus on finding the virus nothing else counts.

[SoCalReviews]

{QUOTE-> ....I had endless timewasting warflames because of silly comments like above.... <-QUOTE}

Hehehe!...Based on substance and tone of your reply we will have to take your word for it. ;)

[DavidCo]

This does not help Mike.
Do you have data on the drive that must be recovered.
Is it an oem PC that has a recovery partition on the drive or do you have a recovery disk of some sort or a retail.
Can you post more data (if the recovery data is on the drive and the mbr is damaged then its back to vendor?)

[SystemJunkie]

{QUOTE-> Hehehe!.. <-QUOTE} Lol, I like to exaggerate to clarify the situation;D 8) ;)

[Nahaz]

{QUOTE-> This story is so outdated it´s only a deception trick, every freak outthere will high likely notice if ram is broken! Many guys like you wanted to make me believe that my Corsair XXL ram would have a problem, this ram is the best available and won´t even have a malfunction in 100 years. Don´t deceive and confuse people with irritating stories like that, focus on malware or driver problems.

Mike thats the problem don´t let confuse yourself by those ram junkies, I had endless timewasting warflames because of silly comments like above, focus on finding the virus nothing else counts. <-QUOTE}

I had EXACTLY the same problem and it did turn out to be a bad stick of RAM. People were telling me it was NIC drivers and others were telling me it was related to some NVidia crap. In the end I ran Memtest86 and found that 1 of my 4 memory sticks was failing. I removed the stick and all has been fine since.

Just goes to show you that this message could be related to a few things including some that you think might be impossible.

BTW - My RAM is CORSAIR ;D

[BBKing212]

For more help, u can ask here: http://www.windowsbbs.com/

[SystemJunkie]

{QUOTE-> Just goes to show you that this message could be related to a few things including some that you think might be impossible.

BTW - My RAM is CORSAIR <-QUOTE}Ouch! That is a real unreal exception!:P

[zfactor]

okay have to chime in here.. i had a serious problem with ess and thus the reason i am not using it right now. i have a toshiba laptop and saw the exact same message you are seeing on it over and over again. i tried everything i could think of.. did a FRESH INSTALL with a full FORMAT many times.. installing ess immediatly after installing vista and the laptops driver disk, there was nothing else on the system at all and remember it had a fresh format and vista install. nothing fixed it even uninstalling ess then trying avira and others i still saw it. i then once again formatted the drive this time NEVER installing ess. same procedure as before. fresh vista then drivers. this time i went straight to avira suite and i have never seen this message again.. i know for a fact it was caused by something to do with ess. whether it was simply a conflict caused with the system by ess or visa versa there was nothing i could do to fix it. have not installed ess since and never saw the message again since then. i HIGHLY doubt it is your ram.

i am not trying to knock ess but i can say ive had my share of issues with it. i am trying kaspersky even right now and i am still cringing thinking about the chkdsk issues, but it runs fine and i have had no conflicts yet.. my fav still is avira but they want a fortune for it