Yeah so, Thoth, I blame you.
You posted about your different anti-virus programs finding shit, and I remember AVG and Avast! found the most, so, what did I do? I went and downloaded them, to see if my system was as clean as I thought it was.
I ran Avast!, it found nothing.
I ran AVG, and it found 4 things, 3 of which were worms embedded in some keygens I had that I had never used. My system wasn't infected mind you, it just had the potential for it. AVG removed them both, and the 4th thing was some potential malware or somecrap that wasn't really dangerous.
So, great. My system is clean. I became more confident in my ability to handle computers and software.
Then I saw this.
What the fuck.
So I rebooted, thought of it as a fluke.
An hour or so later, this happens:
Holy hell, what's going on? I google it and start looking around. MSN has a bunch of articles relating to problems with http.sys.
The system crashes again, while I'm trying to use it to diagnose itself.
I reboot in safe mode and surf there.
Turns out, with the vanilla version of Windows XP SP2, (no hotfixes) there is a conflict with some firewall and anti-virus software that tries to write to un-writeable memory in relation to http.sys.
The ANTI-VIRUS software, was causing symptoms of a VIRUS. WOWOWOWOWOW. The irony is
palpable.
I uninstalled it, but it didn't help. I had to get on my roommates computer (valid windows ID ftw) and download 2 hotfixes, which seem to have fixed it now.
In closing, I hate you Thoth.
Every time you post something "computer", I get the big idea to try it out and get more exp.
So, stop it.
--Locane