Computer help-windows startuprepair failed

[bdeg]

My comp has been running in safe mode for around a month now because every time I start it up it crashes within 20 seconds. Get the bluescreen error of IRQL_Notequal or less. It may be a virus as a hacker that used to be on my network recently made me a project of his.

Ran the StartupRepair, here are the results:

StartupRepair cannot repair this computer
Problem Event name
Problem signature01 StartupRepairV2
Problem signature02 AutoFailover
Problem signature03 6.0.6001.18000.6.0.6001.18000
Problem signature04 3
Problem signature05 65537
Problem signature06 unknown
Problem signature07 NoRootCause
Problem signature08 0
Problem signature09 2
Problem signature10 WrpRepair
Problem signature11 1168
OS Version 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID 1003

Anyone know how to read this?

[bdeg]

Awesome. Thanks a lot

[phisherman]

ugh. symantec endpoint protection is a POS.

[bdeg]

It was the only thing I heard would stop a NetBIOS attack.

Avast! is pretty good?

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by bdeg

It was the only thing I heard would stop a NetBIOS attack.

Avast! is pretty good?

netBIOS attack? There's dozens of attacks that exploit holes in NetBIOS. Not to mention that fact that it's tunneled in IP by default and isn't propagated past your local gateway unless somebody is directing something at specific service ports. There are a ton of firewalls out there that prevent port scanning and specific TCP/UDP service port attacks, and none of them are as awful as Symantec.

Avast! is the best anti-virus, hands down.

[bdeg]

I'm a little new to the network stuff, but yes there was action directed at specific ports. I'd tell you what they were but this was a while ago, I do remember they were just about the most suspicious/vulnerable ports you can find. My roommate brought it to my attention, once I installed endpoint it was constantly blocking port scans and packets moving in and out. Those log files were mountains.

Anyway thanks for the recommendation.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by bdeg

I'm a little new to the network stuff, but yes there was action directed at specific ports. I'd tell you what they were but this was a while ago, I do remember they were just about the most suspicious/vulnerable ports you can find. My roommate brought it to my attention, once I installed endpoint it was constantly blocking port scans and packets moving in and out. Those log files were mountains.

Anyway thanks for the recommendation.

If you don't have a hardware firewall, just download a personal firewall. If you're talking about incoming traffic on the NetBIOS TCP ports, be aware that it's probably NOT a hacker. There are literally thousands of worms that are trying to get to those ports. And alot of those exploits have already been patched by Microsoft, rendering them harmless.

You'll have to look elsewhere for personal firewall recommendations as I don't use one. ZoneAlarm was always good back in the day, but I haven't used it for years.

[MTG#10]

ZoneAlarm is a great personal firewall and best of all, its free.