Re: Blue Screen after Boot

ter wrote:
When my pc boots it goes to a blue screen. When it is starting I can temporarily see my desktop icons and then everything goes blue. I have ran a registry cleaner and spysweeper/antivirus. My daughter was on the net when some virus screens popped up. She clicked the x to exit but many popup windows appeared and it has not worked properly since. I am able to get to my data through ctrl-alt-del which brings up task manager. Help....

You can try cleaning up the malware, which will be tedious at best. Since I don't know what you've got I can only give you general malware removal steps below. If this is more work than you want to do, back up your data and do a clean install of Windows. It's your call, of course.

Go through these general malware removal steps systematically - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Include scanning with David Lipman's Multi_AV and follow instructions to do all scans in Safe Mode.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Multi-AV - instructions
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/sicherheit/35905/multi_av_scanning_tool.html - download site

The site is in German but David's tool is in English so don't let that worry you. Scroll all the way down to almost the bottom of the page and you'll see a box titled "Infos Zum Download - Multi-AV Scanning Tool". You'll see "Download von www pctipp.ch" and the live link to download Multi_AV.

You can also check to see if there are targeted removal steps for your malware here:
Bleeping Computer removal how-to's - http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum55.html

When all else fails, run HijackThis and post your log in one of the specialty forums listed at the first link above (not here, please).

Standard caveat: If the procedures look too complex - and there is no shame in admitting this isn't your cup of tea - take the machine to a professional computer repair shop (not your local version of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad). Please be aware that not all local shops are skilled at removing malware and even if they are, your computer may be so infested that Windows will need to be clean-installed. Have all your data backed up before you take the machine into a shop.


Malke
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