Heads Up about ComboFix

Recently was running my Every6Month Paranoia Scans (all the scans in Malware Removal Run-Me-First list). Went fine until I got to running ComboFix.

You must realize I'm a thin shade above newbie, so bear with me. When I read the instructions on actually running the ComboFix proggy, it said "DO NOT, REPEAT, DO *NOT* reboot your machine yourself!"

OK, the scan ran through its stages and started to reboot my machine itself. I instantly see the dreaded BSOD. Complete with error message: INVALID_KERNEL_HANDLE and the address 0x00000093, etc.

Being afraid to touch the machine, I sat there and watched it for 20 min., before I realized it was not going to do anything to recover unless I rebooted after a power off. That warning somewhat scared me, but I rebooted anyway.

All started up ok. Apparently the hang up occurred because of my password in the initial boot not being entered.

After I entered my password, the reboot continued and I again had to shut down all accessory programs, i.e., antivirus, etc. Then when I clicked on the ComboFix window, it resumed and finished its scan and generated a log.

Whew.

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Suggestion: You might see if there is a way to bypass the need for a password to be entered in the reboot which ComboFix does in its cleaning process. Or tell folks they may have to power down and reboot manually, even though it says not to. Just my $.02

Sure did make me nervous to touch the machine when they had said not to.
Hope I didn't mess anything up.:confused

Sorry, if I congested the forum with junk, but didn't know how else to mention this. Or to whom.

 

Okay, so did you get your system cleaned up or do you want to attach your logs for review?

 

All is fine, I was simply posting for the suggestion about NOT restarting your machine yourself. Because that is the only way I could get my machine out of a BSOD. I was only adding a suggestion. Had no indication of malware in first place. Was only running scans for prevention and to be sure.

You guys do wonderful work. I was clueless as to how to add a suggestion.

 

Okay!

You should see this article on How to Protect yourself from malware! to prevent infections.:major