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The Blue Screen Crashes might be Caused by Malware

February 15th, 2010 admin No comments

After the last week security update from Microsoft, their support service has been flooded with reports from customers, saying that their computers had been rendered unusable with a blue-screen-of-death. After the investigation, Microsoft has come to the conclusion that this might be caused be the malicious software, and claims to have proof that removing malware will allow the system to boot. Confirming this an unrelated Windows XP user has traced the problem to the atapi .sys file, which turned to have a TDSS rootkit in it. Stand-alone tools to remove the rootkit can now be found over the Internet, but to do so, you will still have to remove your hard-drive and scan it using another computer.