Two days ago my laptop got slammed with a slew of malware as a result of my niece using it while virus signatures were not up to date. When I first got to it, it was all I could do to uninstall the old antivirus and install new software. This is the first time this has ever happened to me. A virus, trojan, worm, and rootkit were all detected by Prevx2 scans and Avira Antivir. I let Prevx clean what it could, and though it reported all threats had been removed that was obviously not the case. I rebooted, then ran Spybot S&D, which detected and removed a colossal amount of garbage. Rebooted again, then ran Antivir and allowed it to remove yet more. Finally I ran a HiJackThis scan, and removed what I knew were threats and hijacks. I ran all of the above steps once again while disconnected from the internet, but not in safe mode. Both smitfraud and virtumonde hit me. I removed smitfraud, but to no avail. HiJackThis isn't showing anything suspicious anymore either.
Finally it seemed everything had been taken care of. Until I left for 5 minutes and returned to see the blue screen, baring the message bad_pool_header. I restarted, and sure enough, the next time I left the machine alone for about 5 minutes the BSOD came back with a different message: no_more_irp_stack_locations. It's different every time. Other error messages include bogus_driver and irql_not_less_or equal etc. etc. I don't have the rest of the error info. It's a different error message every time.
My ram is but a month old. Should I try reseating the cards? What about running a repair with the XP disc? As the error message is different every time, I'm really at a loss as to what may have caused this. I've not installed anything new recently. The only significant changes took place as a result of that serious infection.
Dell Inspiron 510M. Windows XP Pro. Pentium M. 1.280 gig of ram. 40GB hd.
Thank you in advance.
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