Help Me Fix My Computer

[Mao]

Hello again! Hopefully I can get a little help here since everyone and their mothers here seems to be very well versed in technology...

So I think I have a problem with Malware, but I'm honestly not sure. A few days ago, my computer started restarting at random times. It's gotten more and more frequent since then. I'd done MBAM scans and found nothing. I've done a-squared scans and found nothing. I've done Spybot scans and found nothing. I've done Avast! scans and found nothing.

I went to the Event Viewer (I'm using Windows XP Pro) and the errors I keep getting are from "Service Control Manager" event 7026. Sometimes there's an error from "disk" (error 7). I *think* that the restarts might have something to do with that? I thought it might have been that I was using too many system resources, but I haven't been doing anything differently since before the restarts started happening and if anything, I'm using up less memory/running less programs. Anyone have any ideas?

[Japher]

luckily everyone who posts in the tech forum posts here

[SlowwHand]

Did you have LavaSoft installed, and then removed?

Error Service Control Manager Event ID 7026
ColTom2 posted on Sunday, July 26, 2009 10:57 PM

As always as soon as you post a question you normally find the answer
shortly thereafter. So it was in this case, as I spent too much time
Googling looking for someone else's answer and not enough time myself
working on a solution.

Anyway here is the solution that so many that have uninstalled Lavasoft's
Ad-aware and ended up with this same problem.

I ran Autoruns for Windows
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx and screened
it closely and found the culprit. It was listed under
HKLM\System|CurrentControlSet\Services and I unticked "Lbd" Ad-aware
Mini-Filter Driver. Rebooted and the problem was gone.

However, to be sure I deleted all aspects of the Lavasoft Lbd Driver I ran
Regedit> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services and deleted the "Lbd" entry.
Now it is entirely gone and no longer appears in Autoruns.

[Hauldren Collider]

Quick google and personal experience leads me to believe you are hitting out of memory exceptions, but I'm not 100% certain. Check to see how many services are running, and check the size of your page file. How much RAM and page file do you have?

[Wiglaf]

Whose DL are you?

[SlowwHand]

Wiggy to the wescue!

[Hauldren Collider]

Whose DL are you?

Who, me?

If yes, what makes you think I'm a dl?

[loinburger]

If you haven't mucked around with the software lately then it may be a hardware problem. Try Active Hard Disk Monitor, Memtest, and Prime95 to check for hard disk and memory problems and to stress-test your computer. IIRC you need to run Memtest from a boot disk, if you have an XP SP1 CD then you can build a Bart PE boot CD or alternatively check around on torrent sites for a pre-built Bart PE ISO.

[ZEE]

where is the goatse avatar?

[loinburger]

Banished, along with the tubgirl signature

[Ecofarm]

I probably shouldn't ask what 'tubgirl' is?

[loinburger]

Do a google image search for tubgirl, make sure safe search is off

[Ecofarm]

No way, buddy.

[giblets]

I never knew Ecofarm was such a wimp.

[Ecofarm]

You're not gonna trick me into doing it.

I'm tough enough to admit, I fear tubgirl.