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xtopher:
An overheating problem normally causes the system to power off not just reboot.
Yes md, I did say that my system was recently cleaned but these forums are ever so sure that all spybot crashes are overheating!
*But I had some time way back, a memory failure, as the ram chip was breaking down under intensive use, probably the heat. With completely different results....freezes, reboots, power offs. Changed the offending bank and cured*
As my mobo has always run hot, i built a large fan blowing extra air into the chassis, so its keeps it cooler. In conjuction wuith a heatsink and cpu fan of course.
Anyway, my cure was to first do an online scan. Trend first.
It came up with the usual cookies and trackers but also one spyware/malware. I didnt get time to note it down but as trend tried to remove it the sys rebooted.
I then tried Panda. Panda never found anything but pskill, which it states is a hacker tool. It isnt.
BT Broadband installs pskill as part of its Motive remote help fixing tool for BB problems. Its part of an official installation package. So 1/10 for Panda. Most of you know its a legit process killer.
Starting in Safe Mode.........ran Spybot and it scanned fine. I can only assume it was some form of spyware that caused it to reboot. NAV also then completed a full scan, unlike previous attempts which rebooted.
So that looks like the answer. Some nasty shit onboard! Now gone.
Another day in the life of a windows user. Spending more time fixing shit than actually doing shit with an OS that constantly needs daily security patches (where my old Netware needed 1 patch a year before M$ killed Novell).
Tieing in the browser to the OS was ever such a good idea Bill.
