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I keep on getting consistant crashes recently with a blue screen...however I
have now noticed that something is switching off my zonealarm firewall !

Do I have a virus or a number of viruses ?

Currently running AVG virus checker up todate and no virus detected.
Zone Alarm firewall
Adaware...nothing detected

Suggestions ?

NZed

tHe otHer BeaTle wrote:
> I keep on getting consistant crashes recently with a blue screen...however I
> have now noticed that something is switching off my zonealarm firewall !
>
> Do I have a virus or a number of viruses ?
>
> Currently running AVG virus checker up todate and no virus detected.
> Zone Alarm firewall
> Adaware...nothing detected
>
> Suggestions ?
>
> NZed
>
>

It's Microsoft. It could be anything.

One time when I was *forced* to use XP the damn thing would consistently
crash because it didn't like the modem.

However my bet is that it's a virus. Have you opened any dodgy email
attachments lately?

"tHe otHer BeaTle" <> wrote in
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> I keep on getting consistant crashes recently with a blue
> screen...however I have now noticed that something is switching off my
> zonealarm firewall !
>
> Do I have a virus or a number of viruses ?
>
> Currently running AVG virus checker up todate and no virus detected.
> Zone Alarm firewall
> Adaware...nothing detected
>
> Suggestions ?
>
> NZed
>
>

Pull the HDD, put it into a known clean updated machine and scan it with
your favorite tools, back up all the data while you are at it.
AVG is overrated IMHO. Antivir is free too, but better IMHO. Do you
have SpywareBlaster?

Turn off the auto-reboot option and post some deatail about the crash!
Blue Screens have differences.
What does your event logs say about it?


--
Ciao, Dave

"tHe otHer BeaTle" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I keep on getting consistant crashes recently with a blue screen...however
>I have now noticed that something is switching off my zonealarm firewall !
>
> Do I have a virus or a number of viruses ?
>
> Currently running AVG virus checker up todate and no virus detected.
> Zone Alarm firewall
> Adaware...nothing detected
>
> Suggestions ?
>
> NZed
>
>

Blue screens on XP generally indicate hardware fault... altho this could
come about via a corrupt driver as well. Reinstall all your drivers and see
if the issue goes away.

"tHe otHer BeaTle" <> wrote in message
> I keep on getting consistant crashes recently with a blue screen...however
I
> have now noticed that something is switching off my zonealarm firewall !
> Do I have a virus or a number of viruses ?
> Currently running AVG virus checker up todate and no virus detected.
> Zone Alarm firewall
> Adaware...nothing detected
> Suggestions ?

I've had this twice. 1st time it was memory. get a free memtest file and
check your memory. 2nd time and still, it she video card buggered. Currently
fails when playing games.

My current solution is not to play games and use Linux.

PAM.

tHe otHer BeaTle wrote:
> I keep on getting consistant crashes recently with a blue screen...however I
> have now noticed that something is switching off my zonealarm firewall !
>
> Do I have a virus or a number of viruses ?
>
> Currently running AVG virus checker up todate and no virus detected.
> Zone Alarm firewall
> Adaware...nothing detected
>
> Suggestions ?
>
> NZed
>
>
Could be a windows update. Am using Win2k and recently had similar
problem after installing updates. Ended up booting into safe mode and
uninstalling windows updates until problem went away.

Tim

that sounds familiar...as I had done an update to XP 2
bugger !
NZed

"Tim" <> wrote in message
news:Bhlwe.11039$...
> tHe otHer BeaTle wrote:
> > I keep on getting consistant crashes recently with a blue
screen...however I
> > have now noticed that something is switching off my zonealarm firewall !
> >
> > Do I have a virus or a number of viruses ?
> >
> > Currently running AVG virus checker up todate and no virus detected.
> > Zone Alarm firewall
> > Adaware...nothing detected
> >
> > Suggestions ?
> >
> > NZed
> >
> >
> Could be a windows update. Am using Win2k and recently had similar
> problem after installing updates. Ended up booting into safe mode and
> uninstalling windows updates until problem went away.
>
> Tim

"Bubba Ray" <> wrote in message
news:d9r7tc$sfj$...
> tHe otHer BeaTle wrote:
>> I keep on getting consistant crashes recently with a blue
>> screen...however I have now noticed that something is switching off my
>> zonealarm firewall !
>>
>> Do I have a virus or a number of viruses ?
>>
>> Currently running AVG virus checker up todate and no virus detected.
>> Zone Alarm firewall
>> Adaware...nothing detected
>>
>> Suggestions ?
>>
>> NZed
>>
>>
>
> It's Microsoft. It could be anything.
>
> One time when I was *forced* to use XP the damn thing would consistently
> crash because it didn't like the modem.
>
> However my bet is that it's a virus. Have you opened any dodgy email
> attachments lately?
>

The something switching off ZoneAlarms firewall is ZoneAlarm itself
unfortunately. They have very poor quality control. See this link :
http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?i...&category=main

"XPD" <> wrote in message
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>
> "tHe otHer BeaTle" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>
> Blue screens on XP generally indicate hardware fault... altho this could
> come about via a corrupt driver as well. Reinstall all your drivers and
> see if the issue goes away.

Corrupted Iomega Zip disks have caused blue screens on my Toshiba A10 laptop
with XP. The work-around is to re-format the disk before accessing it.

It is a parallel Iomega box, which needs to be powered up and on-line before
switching on the laptop to become accessible. I don't use it much anymore
because I use CD-Rs, and CD-RWs for temporary stuff now.

Henry

I am impressed by your scientific methodology, the rapidity with which you
come to conclusions and your willingness to then modify those conclusions
when you receive further evidence.

IE
- Its Microsoft
- It could be anything
- my bet is that its a virus.

Now, which one of those is the OP supposed to use as the basis for solving
their problem? Random Shuffle perhaps? Is that how things are solved in your
world? No wonder you had issues with XP.

Hmmm science at its very best.



"Bubba Ray" <> wrote in message
news:d9r7tc$sfj$...
> tHe otHer BeaTle wrote:
>> I keep on getting consistant crashes recently with a blue
>> screen...however I have now noticed that something is switching off my
>> zonealarm firewall !
>>
>> Do I have a virus or a number of viruses ?
>>
>> Currently running AVG virus checker up todate and no virus detected.
>> Zone Alarm firewall
>> Adaware...nothing detected
>>
>> Suggestions ?
>>
>> NZed
>>
>>
>
> It's Microsoft. It could be anything.
>
> One time when I was *forced* to use XP the damn thing would consistently
> crash because it didn't like the modem.
>
> However my bet is that it's a virus. Have you opened any dodgy email
> attachments lately?
>