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 #21796  by TETYYSs
 Thu Dec 26, 2013 9:30 am
Probably not a best question to ask, but: What's the most spooky/evil NTSTATUS code? All NTSTATUS codes can be found in ntstatus.h. So far I have STATUS_DISK_CORRUPT_ERROR which translates to
The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable.

, STATUS_FT_READ_RECOVERY_FROM_BACKUP, which translates to
To satisfy a read request, the NT fault-tolerant file system successfully read the requested data from a redundant copy.
This was done because the file system encountered a failure on a member of the fault-tolerant volume, but was unable to reassign the failing area of the device.

, STATUS_FIRMWARE_UPDATED (of course when no BIOS has been updated):
Windows has detected that the system firmware (BIOS) was updated [previous firmware date = %2, current firmware date %3].

and of course STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION:
The instruction at 0x%08lx referenced memory at 0x%08lx. The memory could not be %s.

I tried searching following keywords: unfixable, corrupt, critical, failure, fault.
 #21799  by EP_X0FF
 Thu Dec 26, 2013 2:18 pm
STATUS_IO_DEVICE_ERROR and all related to hardware failures + STATUS_SYSTEM_PROCESS_TERMINATED.
 #22472  by rees52
 Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:38 pm
I know this is a little late but I just saw this now.

My favorite/spooky code is STATUS_TOO_MANY_SECRETS