Infection Affecting my Drivers?

[Rhaokiel]

I don't know if this is malware or what... but I have performed a system hardware diagnostics test without a single detected hardware problem.

Anyways here's the issue,

1. my computer is a lot slower than normal
   
2. and every once-in-a-while the following happens:
   
   • I watch as the icons in the tray turn to disabled icons (battery, wireless, sound)
     
   • I lose control of the mouse
     
   • The keyboard appears not to work except for the WinLogo which displays only the start menu profile icon (not the entire start menu)
     
   • and finally the entire screen goes black
     
   • followed by an error memory dump (blue "bios type" screen)
     

If I let it get to the point where it does the error dump... I will not be able to boot my computer without doing a system restore to the latest restore point.

If I zap the power before the point... I can restart my computer and it appears to function normally. (Albeit, still slow)

Re-installing the entire operating system and all my accessory application would my the last resort.

Any thoughts... I'll be back on tomorrow for any advice. Thanks in advance.

[Rhaokiel]

I've finally had time to collect my thoughts and get thorough scans run, here they are...

Since I think that attach.txt will be more help than dds.txt in this I have attached both instead of including either in my post. (Specifically the event viewer messages, I think.)

Also GMER found nothing in the way of possible rootkits... so I'm gonna take a wild guess this is not infection related at all.

My thoughts:

• I first believed the crashes were do to removing a program called Spyware Doctor, because my computer coincidentally crashed after I removed it the first two times.
• But that idea was proved false when the third time it did not crash.
• Now I believe it has something to do with when my wireless driver acts all funny: It will connect to the network I tell it to, as if the wifi signal is being processed by the nic, but is somehow lost before it gets to the operating system.
• This has actually been happening for almost a month now, I think since the update to VMWare, I'm not sure though , and just recently the crashes have started.
• I recently attempted to upgrade my wifi driver which also came with Intel PROSet Wireless Tools package, I have not seen any much difference in doing so. (Except maybe the crashes?)
• I don't know when the driver switched over to Intel since I thought the OEM was AMD... I should check on that since it might be the solution to all my problems.

Other concerns:

• A lot of GUID named folders appeared in my local data recently... they are all empty...?

mbam.exe 2011-05-04.txt

dds.exe dds.txt

dds.exe attach.txt

[Rhaokiel]

I just double checked... and the hardware is from Intel

so anything else that might be affecting my wireless or causing mass-driver failure and crash?

[Rhaokiel]

I'm gonna move over to the PC-Help forum and ask there... since this is no longer an infection related issue.

[screen317]

Thanks for letting us know. I will close this topic.