[sachinonnet]

Hi,

i am using windows 2000 sp4 .. suddenly there are lot many problem comes like iis crash,ftp (serv-u) crash all services won't be giving me a control to stop or start.. so i rebooted the server and iis and ftp works but i can't access to network icons and when i open computer management when ever i click on Disk Management it gives error " The Handle is invalid". also when i click on services and application it gives error like "Snap-in failed to initialize Name: not available CLSID: {80105023-50B1-11D1-B930-00A0C9A06D2d}"

to stop the service i need to kill it with pskill..

thanx

below are the some events i am getting in eventviewer

Event Code/Log Source Name Time Written Type Message
0 / Application SENS 8/17/2005 2:30:03 PM error
0 / Application ProtectedStorage 8/17/2005 2:30:03 PM error
17055 / Application MSSQLSERVER 8/17/2005 2:30:03 PM error 17143 : SQLServiceControlHandler: Could not set Service Control Status. Operating system error = 6(The handle is invalid.).
1006 / Application McLogEvent 8/17/2005 2:30:02 PM error Task Manager : Service Error : SetServiceStatus
4101 / Application EventSystem 8/17/2005 2:30:02 PM error The COM+ Event System detected an unexpected error from a Win32 API call at line 179 of .\service.cpp. A call to SetServiceStatus failed with error code 6: "The handle is invalid. " Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.
INWIN04 17055 / Application MSSQLSERVER 8/17/2005 2:12:19 PM error 18278 : Database log truncated: Database: westasia.
INWIN04 0 / Application SENS 8/17/2005 2:00:02 PM error

[American Zombie]

Maybe you have the worm that is targeting Windows 2000.

Try the Malicious Software Removal Tool.

[grad]

Same problem we had, is was caused by APC software

see http://emea-en.apc.com/cgi-bin/emea_en.c...nZT0x&p_li=