| Re: Faulting application Bitstring <8C657822-986D-45F5-98E3-52C48990A047@microsoft.com>, from the
wonderful person SteveL <SteveL@discussions.microsoft.com> said
>I have searched for this file on my system, non found, I searched my registry
>for the file name, and nothing there.
>
>Can someone tell me as to why I am having a faulting app on a non existing
>file?
>
>Application Error Faulting application pprekop.exe, version 4.2.0.172,
>faulting module ole32.dll, version 5.1.2600.2182, fault address 0x10017bed.
Sounds like you might be infected then, down at the rootkit level.
Google Is Your Friend - there are several rootkit revealers/removers
available. I'd personally start with rootkit revealer from sysinternals,
since that doesn't attempt to fix anything.
/rant on
The way M$ have constructed Windows (for the benefit of Digital Rights
Mgmt folks, and virus writing spamming b&stards) it is quite possible to
hide both files (and folders) and registry keys. Go look at
HKLM\security with regedit .. see anything? Nope you wont. Now export
it. Now you see it. However what you see is binary/hex/whatever,
designed to be hard to search and modify. And you actually have
permissions for that key - there are probably several on your system
that you don't even have read access for (unless you are logged on as
'SYSTEM').
The 'personal' computer is rapidly becoming more M$'s property than your
own, except when some trojan/virus/spyware/rootkit has already claimed
it for itself.
/end rant
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