Re: Fatal exception SYMEvent at boot time.

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 04:22 PM 2/15/2001, Brian Keener wrote:
>Larry Hall wrote:
> > I find it hard to believe that it could 
> > be affecting your situation, although it depends on precisely where you get 
> > your blue-screen I suppose.
>
>I too thought it unlikely that it could affect it but I was unsure as to 
>whether cygwin ever ever puts anything into \windows although I felt sure it 
>did not.  I was just asking on the possibility someone might recognize 
>SYMEvent.


Sure.  Makes some sense.  And no, the Cygwin install doesn't put anything in
the system directories.


> > What O/S are you running?  
>
>I am running Win95 - but we may have found it. We are testing the theory now


My sympathies!;-)


>  
>and as we all suspected if it is what we think it is *not* Cygwin related and 
>my apologies for cluttering the newsgroup.  I mentioned it to someone else 
>here and they say - "gee sounds like SYMantec" and then I remembered I also 
>installed latest patch to Norton Antivirus (because of Anna Kournikova virus) 
>Monday - about the same time this started.  I have currently disabled Norton 
>and I have booted several times to see what affect and so far have not seen.


Ah, yes.  Virus scanners.  Those'll kill you!;-)


> > Perhaps a cygcheck -s -r -v would be helpful?
>
>You are correct - it would have been and I thought about but failed to follow 
>through on my thought. My apologies.


I'll survive.;-)



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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