missing boot.ini syndrome

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Joe Smith

We have a series of machines on our network that randomly lost their
boot.ini files. There was no order to which machines were infected but
problem became noticeable when the user would restart their machine and get
a missing boot.ini error, or corrupted kernal error. Of course we were able
to restore the boot.ini files for each machine, but am curious to know what
would cause the problem?

Is there some virus or trojan application going around causing this problem?
Could there be a problem with our domain or network?

All the machines were Windows 2000 Professional on a 2000 Advanced Server
Active Directory.

Any ideas?

Thanks...
 
Joe Smith said:
We have a series of machines on our network that randomly lost their
boot.ini files. There was no order to which machines were infected but
problem became noticeable when the user would restart their machine and get
a missing boot.ini error, or corrupted kernal error. Of course we were able
to restore the boot.ini files for each machine, but am curious to know what
would cause the problem?
Click to expand...

Mostly likely someone (maybe some virus) just deleted them.

Is there some virus or trojan application going around causing this problem?
Could there be a problem with our domain or network?
Click to expand...

You might hunt through the (40 or so) results returned this
Google search:

[ "boot.ini * deleted" | "deleted * boot.ini" virus | trojan | worm ]
 
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