Microbell has been working with me on the HJT forum to ensure that my problems are not spyware related, and has concluded that my system is clean.
Over the last 2 nights I have recorded the problems I have been having and attach them here for you to see.
Microbell has suggested the following which I will run through tonight.
1 Run SFC from the run box and look for missing and corrupt windows files.
2 Run memtest86 to check your ram and make sure it's not failing.
3 Open Device Manager and look for any conflicts.
4 Reboot into safe mode and see if you have the same issues.
5 If you installed any software/hardware right before this issue appeared...remove it.
6 Check the Hard Drive for any errors or bad clusters and sectors.
Regarding these suggestions:
1 I'm not sure how I would spot a missing or corrupt file.
2 Will do this.
3 Will do this.
4 The PC has always booted into Safe Mode without a problem, and has only hung when ScanDisk found Message: 'Crossed linked files or folders found', and I accepted the default option, 'Give each file a separate copy of the shared cluster'.
5 I have (fairly) recently installed a firewire card for my camcorder, but there were no problems when I installed it. I will remove it later and see if that stops the problems.
6 I have recently run a thorough scan of C: in safe mode, with no problems found.
Wednesday evening's experience.
Booted PC.
Message: 'Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer'.
Pressed reset button.
Screen displaying 'Memory Testing ..... '
PC Hung
Pressed reset button and started in Safe Mode.
Ran Scandisk on drive C:
Message: 'Crossed linked files or folders found'. I accepted the default option,
'Give each file a separate copy of the shared cluster'.
PC Hung
Pressed reset button
Connected to Internet, and to Panda Active Scan.
The scan had nearly (or completely) finished when the PC rebooted.
Message: 'While Initializing device IOS:
Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer'
Switched PC off.
Booted PC in Safe Mode.
Ran Scandisk on drive C:
Message: 'Crossed linked files or folders found'.
I selected 'Delete all affected files'.
Message: 'C:\ folder contains incorrect information about BOOTLOG.PRV'.
I selected 'Repair the error'.
Message: 'C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs folder contains incorrect information about TVDebug.log'.
I selected 'Repair the error'.
Message: 'ScanDisk found 20480 bytes in 4 lost file fragments'.
I selected 'Convert the lost file fragments into files'.
Switched PC off.
Booted PC.
After login to Windows,
Message: 'Vsmon - This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown'.
Shut down PC and switched off.
Booted PC.
Connected to Internet, and to Panda Active Scan.
Panda Active Scan completed.
Thursday evening's experience
Booted PC.
Message: 'Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer'.
Booted PC in Safe Mode.
Ran Scandisk on drive C:
Message: 'C:\ folder contains incorrect information about BOOTLOG.PRV'.
I selected 'Repair the error'.
Shut down and restart.
After login to Windows,
Message: 'Nprotect - This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown'.
Message: 'Pelmiced - This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown'.
Whilst I was writing down these messages, the PC Rebooted.
Connected to Internet, and to Tech Support Forum.
As I selected 'Is my PC clean?' the PC Rebooted.
After the Windows logon, the Desktop screen had a red line across, about 1cm from the top, and the PC hung.
Switched off and rebooted.
Logged on to Windows, the internet and this thread.
Ran StartDreck and HJT without any problems, and posted this reply.
I will report back when I have more information.
Regards
Keith
