what the heck is ntoskrn1.exe use for?

colinuk · 26 Apr 2007 at 10:46

Any idea what ntoskrn1.exe is used for, ive googled it, still none the wiser. Also i could do with finding one of these to put back onto a PC.

TYIA

Colin

celliott · 26 Apr 2007 at 11:19

Well I believe ntoskrn is the XP boot screen as I have played about with custom ones before.

Chris.

Tute · 26 Apr 2007 at 11:22

I thought the file was called NTOSKRNL.EXE (not with a 1 on the end).

Virus scanned it?

celliott · 26 Apr 2007 at 11:23

Ah yea it probably is

Tute · 26 Apr 2007 at 11:26

You have been hacked by Jonathan Wendel.

He is in your PC, replacing all your Ls with 1s.

The_KiD · 26 Apr 2007 at 11:38

As said, if it is ntoskrn1.exe then it is a virus/malware of some kind.

If however you mean NTOSKRNL.exe then it is the windows NT KERNEL file.

If you think it may be a virus submit it to Virus total for immediate testing: http://www.virustotal.com/en/indexf.html

colinuk · 26 Apr 2007 at 16:53

It was indeed NTOSKRNL, the help desk that supplied the ticket put it down as NTOSKRN1 lol.... i forgot not to believe what i read from that lot...

Cheers all... ended up being a rebuild any way. Then the HDD broke so back to base it goes....

Thanks for the replies.

Colin

bledd · 26 Apr 2007 at 17:32

that file is used for booting windows

SexyGreyFox · 26 Apr 2007 at 19:33

In all cases like this just type it into this new thing called Google and it may help - http://www.google.com/search?q=NTOSKRNL

Gas Panic! · 26 Apr 2007 at 21:00

dmpoole said:
In all cases like this just type it into this new thing called Google and it may help - http://www.google.com/search?q=NTOSKRNL

Yeha, nice one... 'cept the first line of his post reads:

"Any idea what ntoskrn1.exe is used for, ive googled it, still none the wiser."

lay-z-boy · 27 Apr 2007 at 00:04

Tute said:
You have been hacked by Jonathan Wendel.

He is in your PC, replacing all your Ls with 1s.

LOL