I have a one year old Win Vista PC, that came with Windows Defender, and I added
on Trend Micro Antivirus. Everything has been working fine, along with the
3 additional freeware spy/malware programs that I installed:Malware bytes, Ad-Aware,
and Spybot search and destroy.
I picked a 'Win32.zafi.B' worm somewhere, and none of my programs(with updated programs
and definitions) was able to find it. After a bit of research, I bought 'Spyware
Doctor with Anti-virus', as it's promotional material said it would find and eliminate
any worms. I installed it, ran the full scan, and it found a few 'bugs', but not
the one mentioned above. I sent an email to PCTools, where I bought it from concerning
this, and have yet to hear back from them...it's been a week.
In the meantime, my Windows Defender would display a pop up window every few hours
saying that I have two anti-virus programs running, and if I wanted to disable
Defender. I said 'no', as I thought that two would be better than one.
After a day of pop ups, I had my first BSOD error 'Driver IRQL not less or equal'.
I didn't know what this meant, or that it was in relation to my newly installed
Spyware Doctor. I did a system restore to a point in time to just before I installed
Spyware Doctor. At this point, Windows Defender is running, and there is no Spyware
Doctor running. 3 days go by and no BSOD's.
At this point I decided to try an experiment...I turned off Defender, and re-installed
Spyware Doctor, thinking that the BSOD was due to a conflict between these two
programs. My PC wasn't up more than a few hours before it crashed again.
I did another system restore, and now I'm back to where I was before buying Spyware
Doctor-3 days and no BSOD's. So, it looks as if my PC just doesn't want to run
Spyware Doctor. Anyone know what that error means, and how I can get Spyware Doctor
to work, and have it NOT crash my PC?
on Trend Micro Antivirus. Everything has been working fine, along with the
3 additional freeware spy/malware programs that I installed:Malware bytes, Ad-Aware,
and Spybot search and destroy.
I picked a 'Win32.zafi.B' worm somewhere, and none of my programs(with updated programs
and definitions) was able to find it. After a bit of research, I bought 'Spyware
Doctor with Anti-virus', as it's promotional material said it would find and eliminate
any worms. I installed it, ran the full scan, and it found a few 'bugs', but not
the one mentioned above. I sent an email to PCTools, where I bought it from concerning
this, and have yet to hear back from them...it's been a week.
In the meantime, my Windows Defender would display a pop up window every few hours
saying that I have two anti-virus programs running, and if I wanted to disable
Defender. I said 'no', as I thought that two would be better than one.
After a day of pop ups, I had my first BSOD error 'Driver IRQL not less or equal'.
I didn't know what this meant, or that it was in relation to my newly installed
Spyware Doctor. I did a system restore to a point in time to just before I installed
Spyware Doctor. At this point, Windows Defender is running, and there is no Spyware
Doctor running. 3 days go by and no BSOD's.
At this point I decided to try an experiment...I turned off Defender, and re-installed
Spyware Doctor, thinking that the BSOD was due to a conflict between these two
programs. My PC wasn't up more than a few hours before it crashed again.
I did another system restore, and now I'm back to where I was before buying Spyware
Doctor-3 days and no BSOD's. So, it looks as if my PC just doesn't want to run
Spyware Doctor. Anyone know what that error means, and how I can get Spyware Doctor
to work, and have it NOT crash my PC?