Establishing network connections crashes Win2k

I've been trying to fix my son's system -- it got infected by BraveSentry 2.0 and some other spyware, and now crashes during any attempt to establish a network connection. I've cleaned BraveSentry and other stuff off the machine (thank you, SpyBot S&D, Trend Micro, Major Geeks, and CCleaner!), but the system still crashes when it tries to set up its network connections. This happens both with a cold start, and when network cable is plugged in after the system has started. The system runs fine if the network cable is not connected.

AVG's vcleaner.exe does not report any virus infections. Norton Utilities is installed and also does not report any virus infection, but its virus definitions haven't been updated since 2004.

When it crashes, I get a BSOD. There is an error message, but the BSOD stays up about 2 seconds -- not enough time for me to read the message. Then the system reboots.

SiSoft Sandra reports that the system is a HP Pavilion 4 running on an AMD XP Athlon 1800+ CPU. The OS in place is Windows 2000 Professional SP3. Unfortunately, I don't think my son has the Win2K disk for the system. It was his mother's; she didn't have much of an idea of how important that disk could be, and it has disappeared.

Any ideas on how to stop the system from crashing when it tries to set up its network connections? Or at least how to make the BSOD stay up long enough to read the error message?

 

Do you happen to have a way to transfer files from your PC to his? If so I suggest you download RemoveIt Pro. I have used it lots of times and it finds things that AVG, Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro or any other Antivirus program will find.

It could maybe find the cause of the problem.

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