Hey,
Before I nuke a friend's laptop, I figured I'd throw it out here to see what I can get. She downloaded something and then started getting blue screens. This is where I got it. I started it in safe mode and ran anti-malware bytes (several times), SpyBot, super antispyware, online Symantec scanner, and some other online scanner. Malware bytes cleaned several items, so did Spybot. The Symantec scanner said it had the Trojan.MalJava!gen21 (iirc). I have not ran the Symantec one since the others cleaned stuff. The other online scanner found nothing. Malware bytes and Spybot now return clean. If I boot into normal mode (Vista Home), I do not get blue screen anymore. But I get the progress bar from the Vista start screen, then the screen goes black. I can see the HD access for a while, then nothing. This leaves me to believe that it might have been one of those scare ware infections that do not let you get to your desktop. Any ideas before I nuke and repave? Going to wipe it in the next few hours if I don't hear anything. Thanks, Bobby
