Hi to all (new poster speaking!),
I'm having trouble with a copy of WinXP on my laptop. For the past 48 hours my **AV has been finding that winlogon.exe has been infected by W32/PEPatch.N. This appears at start-up and whenever a document is loaded, but otherwise the laptop seemed to work as usual.
I tried searching for info on W32/PEPatch.N but couldn't find any info and **AV had no info either.
This morning when I clicked on 'Heal' within the **AV warning, the system threw up a BSOD saying:
STOP: c0000021a {Fatal System Error}
The Windows Logon Process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0x0000034 (0x00000000 0x00000000).
The system has shut down.
I've tried restarting in Safe Mode but the same error appears and the loop continues. I'm thinking a repauir install of XP may be in order to fix a corrupted winlogon.exe.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.