Got a scareware virus earlier this week. Had to take it in to get removed. (Was like a FBI/CIA scareware). So $100 later it is removed. Worked fine for a day. Earlier this evening got the blue screen of death, error said "Page fault In Nonpaged Area" along with a bunch of 0's and X's.
Then computer on restart would stick on a black screen that said RV370 P/N 113-A62801-106 BIOS, with a flashing cursor (would not respond to any inputs).
After waiting and shutting the compter on/off multiple times, I did get a restart, most often soon followed by the blue screen and a repeat of problem.

I did get a message on my desktop that the computer is recovering from a serious problem and to restart and remove any recently added programs (which would be a malware remover the repair guy installed and also Microsoft Security Essentials, which I just installed to prevent scareware again. Oh and the message said to restart in safe mode in neccesary to remove the programs.

So I restart in safe mode, then get the message that security essentials can't be removed in safe mode.....GRRRRRR. Restart in normal mode and get Microsoft Essentials removed. So has been fine now for 1/2 hour of use. Holding breath. Keeping the malware program for now (Malwarebytes).

Computer was bought March 2006 so is getting to the point where I "could" think about replacing it. Everyone raves about security essentials so can't believe it is crashing my computer like this. Am using XP Media Center Edition

Thanks for reading. I should figure out something for a firewall, I think my ISP has some free stuff as well, don't trust security essentials right now.

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