How my pc works after Combofix:
1. Combofix finished Log. Some programs couldn’t open, with message “Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been mark for deletion”
2. After rebooted, everything worked just fine and fast.
3. Opened Chrome and browsed a few things, while running MBAM to see if the two mentioned viruses were gone….. PC crashed with blue screen “A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down…” (please see attached picture, and long report below for crashes history)
4. I rebooted it again. Since then, nothing scary happened in the past 6 hours. New MBAM result was clean.
Long Report on the crashes eight days ago:
My PC never crashed before in its 3 years life. 8 days ago, I downloaded Freemind program, downloaded Windows 8 from my college website, updated Adobe Reader to XI (still not working). And I also started using Chrome around the same time. My PC crashed like six times within half an hour that night, even when I tried Safemode with Networking, each with a blue screen message (same as the one mentioned above.)
So I ran Microsoft Security Essentials and MBAM under Safemode. It didn’t crash again since then. I went back to using Internet Explorer. I attempted to install Windows 8, which countered some conflict and ended up unsuccessful.
Until two days ago, you helped me with the hijacked host file problem. After that, you know the story
Thanks for reading, and I apologize for any inconvenience this long message might cause.