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More info?)
I will say that the driver turns up nothing during a Google search. This
means it is so new that no one has questioned it as of yet.
New virus's/trojans/spyware come out about 50 per week. And they like to use
file names that "sound" official to try to avoid manual detection. It this
file was not installed by one of your programs I would certainly bet on
scumware having installed it!
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Regards,
Richard Urban
aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"A. Sim" <ASim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CE8DB477-5933-4725-ABC5-23815186F233@microsoft.com...
> Hi Richard,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to write, for your comment certainly forces me
> to
> sharpen my writing. What I meant to say was that since the letters "HAL"
> were
> embedded in the driver name, that perhaps that driver was related to the
> hardware in one degree or another.
>
> As far as the virus scanning, I actually did a virus scan with both Norton
> and with McAfee (no viruses were found). The BSOD occurs after the Norton
> and
> after the McAfee applications are installed and then the PC is rebooted.
> (As
> long as you don't reboot, it's not a problem; although with a laptop one
> may
> have to reboot more often than not.)
>
> So, if anyone reading this post has any knowledge about the mystery driver
> (camc6hal.sys) I would appreciate hearing. Googling and the Microsoft
> Knowledge base show nothing.
>
> "Richard Urban" wrote:
>
>> The hardware abstraction layer is hal.dll. When was the last time you did
>> perform a virus check, Use on of the on-line scanners if you can't
>> install
>> any antivirus on your computer! Use Google to search "on-line virus scan"
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>>
>> aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard
>>
>> If you knew as much as you think you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>>
>>
>> "A. Sim" <ASim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2F549170-054D-48A7-8EBB-4B316115B037@microsoft.com...
>> > Whenever I install either Norton AntiVirus or McAfee's VirusScan on a
>> > new
>> > HP
>> > laptop with an AMD processor, I get a Blue Screen 0x000000D1 which
>> > means a
>> > bad driver. The driver is camc6hal.sys and I can't find it when
>> > Googling
>> > or
>> > in Microsoft's knowledge base.
>> >
>> > The "HAL" part of the driver name bothers me because I believe that
>> > stands
>> > for the Hardware Abstraction Layer and who knows what Norton or McAfee
>> > are
>> > doing.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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