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O.P. Dodgy  Block Checker
Before I begin I would like to say sorry for opening a thread with 'Block-Checker ' again but thought it was necessary

I have read all the way through the previous block checker thread and found it very useful

the reason why I am creating this thread is because I recently 'fixed' a mates pc, they complained it was slow.   When I got there I found, no word of a lie, over 1000 pieces of spyware, malware, viruses and more.

The programs I used on his computer are as follows:
Spybot Search and Destroy
Crap Cleaner
XoftSpy SE
and Zone Labs (firewall and anti-virus to replace McAfee)
> run > msconfig (checked up on start-up items)
I also ran the Disk Defragmenter

but while using XoftSpy I came across this name 'BlockChecker', every time I tried to remove or quarantine it, it crashed the pc and gave me the blue screen of death, and the last line of it was something like 'dumping physical memory'.  I panicked and switched the pc off.  After switching it back on it is fine, excepted that Block Checker was still there, I left the pc working but with it still there.  Two days later I got a phone call saying it wouldn’t boot up, it was the blue screen of death, and it also wouldn’t start in safe mode.

A good friend of mine suggested to press F8 at start-up and select the last configured settings, hopefully it will replace standard windows files.  He said this because I could of possibly accidentally un-ticked a windows process. I will try this tomorrow. 

But I was wondering if there is anyway of Block Checker to cause this type of problem, since it did when I tried to remove it.  O and there was no uninstaller for Block Checker, it did not appear in add/remove programs :S

If anyone can help me, it would be much appreciated

mr.tickle
01-02-2007 09:18 PM
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RE: Block Checker
did you try a scan in safe mode?
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01-02-2007 09:48 PM
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O.P. RE: Block Checker
i can't :(

windows wont load in normal or safe mode, just comes up with the blue screen

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01-02-2007 09:51 PM
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RE: Block Checker
can you open up the task manager and stop the process and rescan...
go up to start> run > msconfig and delete block checker's entry...
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RE: Block Checker
If he got a system recovery disk put that in. :)
01-02-2007 09:54 PM
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i cant physicaly get to windows, it doesnt load.....goes straight to the blue screen

ill have to ask them to see if the got a recovery disk:)

thanks for eveyone helping

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