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Don't know if it's too early to just 'cash in my chips' and get a new system soon. Although the freeze has only occurred during MBAM. Why would that be? SAS and AVG have been running scans ok. So you don't think it's worth doing the advanced boot option thing? It's only when browsing, it takes a bit longer. Is it average for a HDD to develop faults around 5 years? Suppose it depends mostly on frequency of usage....

'Had to' switch off at the mains again........froze for an hour and a half. No bsod. Left house for work. Will be back late afternoon/early evening UK again to do ABO.

If I need to back up the entire system, can I do that on a DVD, Maurice?

Just finished backing up files and folders onto DVDS. Began following your instructions by firstly doing the VEW scan. Unfortunately, on running the message; Runtime error '75' Path/File access error' came up. Then I started a full MBAM scan which froze on 1.35 on C/config.sys . About 5 mins later following a short 2 sec burst of activity in the HD, the CUrrently scanning item changed to 'C/Games/iSnooker/adverts/advertise.png. This was followed by short 'marching paced' clicks in the HD for about 10 mins. About 10 mins later the mouse icon froze. At the time of typing this, it has been 75 mins since I started the scan and I was poised with my iPad ready to capture an 'expected' bsod!! Your doctrine of infinite patience has rubbed off on me but soon I have to go to work again and will not be able to do the advance boot option phase until tomorrow!! 80 mins - still no change!

Am busy today backing up my 'stuff' onto DVD's then I'm at work. If I get time to run the tests I'll post later. If not, should be tomorrow.

Ok. Will probably attempt this around late afternoon UK time. I read it wrong. The disc method was as an alternative. Sorry.

Why does it behave like this when MBAM runs? It doesn't with SAS or my AVG. This is all a bit daunting now, unchartered territory for me. I do have a Medion labelled (PC is MEDION) Vista Home Premium recovery disc. Where would I find my user account name to input?! Just want to be sure before I start doing all this, Maurice. I mean, the system is only a bit slow in opening webpages, loading pictures and such. Apart from that, it's reasonably fine. Will this procedure harm my files and folders etc?! What will happen?! When you say detailed description of MBAM scan, it's difficult to produce/ describe without a end log. It will most likely freeze at some point and afte about 10 or so minutes it will blue screen, reboot and do another chkdsk to recover. Of course, I want my pc to run a bit better/quicker when I'm surfing the web but forgive me, I'm just a bit reluctantly wary of this now. A couple of days ago, I forgot to mention, I did notice during the insertion of the eset online scan web address on IE browser at the top, the appearance of 'funmoods' in some capacity again. Sorry for whoffling, Maurice!

....not package......inpage

MBAM has AVG in it's ignore list. Is that what you mean? Vista Home Premium for some reason, doesn't facilitate an complete PC back-up, only files and folders. I don't know what the 'restore' was. I know I haven't performed a system restore. What missing pics? MBAM runs ok in safe mode. Did another scan in normal mode and gt as far as 18 mins in until freeze for 5 mins and bluescreen at the the top of which it said KERNEL_STACK_PACKAGE, I think.

My pc is seems to be running more sharply. Web pages opening little quicker. The bsod has only occurred when I run MBAM. Firstly, what are trust settings? The system is about 5 years old. Chkdsk ran earlier today. How do I run a memory diagnostic? I've never been inside the pc casing. Never moved or added ram. Run me thru how to do a full system back up, please. I have a few Tevion 4.7GB DVD-RW discs. Will they do? How many do I need?

Disabled AVG2012 - Initiated MBAMFREE 'full scan' (which is set to ignore AVG) and about 1m 30s in, it froze. After 5 mins, I left my pc for 20 mins. Got back to find my log in screen and it had recovered from an unexpected shutdown following another bsod. Is there a way to capture a blue screen event afterwards? Thanks.

Hi Maurice It does seem to be responding a little more sharply. Thank you so much for your help thus far. I'm pushed for time at present so will have to carry the above out and post the findings tomorrow afternoon UK time. Thanks again.

Step 1 All processes killed ========== OTL ========== HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\\DefaultScope| /E : value set successfully! HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\\DefaultScope| /E : value set successfully! Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{67A2568C-7A0A-4EED-AECC-B5405DE63B64}\ deleted successfully. Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{67A2568C-7A0A-4EED-AECC-B5405DE63B64}\ not found. HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\\Start Page Redirect Cache AcceptLangs| /E : value set successfully! HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\\Start Page Redirect Cache_TIMESTAMP| /E : value set successfully! HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\\StartPageCache| /E : value set successfully! HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\\DefaultScope| /E : value set successfully! HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\\DefaultScope| /E : value set successfully! Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{DECA3892-BA8F-44b8-A993-A466AD694AE4}\ deleted successfully. Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{DECA3892-BA8F-44b8-A993-A466AD694AE4}\ not found. ========== COMMANDS ========== [EMPTYTEMP] User: All Users User: Default ->Temp folder emptied: 0 bytes ->Temporary Internet Files folder emptied: 0 bytes ->Flash cache emptied: 0 bytes User: Default User ->Temp folder emptied: 0 bytes ->Temporary Internet Files folder emptied: 0 bytes ->Flash cache emptied: 0 bytes User: Guest ->Temp folder emptied: 0 bytes ->Temporary Internet Files folder emptied: 0 bytes ->Java cache emptied: 0 bytes ->Opera cache emptied: 0 bytes Step 2(AVG2012 & Firewall disabled) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Junkware Removal Tool (JRT) by Thisisu Version: 4.4.6 (01.20.2013:1) OS: Windows Vista Home Premium x86 Ran by popster on 21/01/2013 at 16:30:51.10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ Services ~~~ Registry Values ~~~ Registry Keys ~~~ Files ~~~ Folders ~~~ Event Viewer Logs were cleared Step 3 # AdwCleaner v2.107 - Logfile created 01/21/2013 at 16:41:18 # Updated 21/01/2013 by Xplode # Operating system : Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2 (32 bits) # User : popster - DAVE # Boot Mode : Normal # Running from : C:\Users\popster\Desktop\adwcleaner.exe # Option [search] ***** [services] ***** ***** [Files / Folders] ***** Folder Found : C:\Users\popster\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\jmfkcklnlgedgbglfkkgedjfmejoahla ***** [Registry] ***** Key Found : HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\0FF2AEFF45EEA0A48A4B33C1973B6094 Key Found : HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\305B09CE8C53A214DB58887F62F25536 ***** [internet Browsers] ***** -\\ Internet Explorer v9.0.8112.16457 [OK] Registry is clean. -\\ Mozilla Firefox v2.0 (en-US) File : C:\Users\popster\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\41cbjatn.default\prefs.js [OK] File is clean. File : C:\Users\popster\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\9z0n1cbg.default\prefs.js [OK] File is clean. -\\ Google Chrome v24.0.1312.52 File : C:\Users\popster\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences [OK] File is clean. -\\ Opera v12.12.1707.0 File : C:\Users\popster\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\operaprefs.ini [OK] File is clean. ************************* AdwCleaner[R1].txt - [6224 octets] - [05/01/2013 14:16:19] AdwCleaner[R2].txt - [4917 octets] - [05/01/2013 22:31:18] AdwCleaner[R3].txt - [1564 octets] - [21/01/2013 16:41:18] AdwCleaner[s1].txt - [5022 octets] - [05/01/2013 22:31:48] ########## EOF - C:\AdwCleaner[R3].txt - [1684 octets] ##########

Also, have recently acquired 3 transparent icons on my destop - an empty folder D9325FC2149B7FFE & 2 desktop.ini

The OTL LOP & Purity check took about 15 mins.