bstevenson
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WinXP Pro SP2, ALL UPDATES, Trend Micro IS 2007, Spybot, Adaware. Laptop has been running for many years just fine. Was in process of researching Reseller Hosting and went to a hosting site. They had a link for demo mode of cPanel. I have done this on other sites with no problem. When I clicked on it IE6 (I refuse to use IE7) it closed and would not reopen. Everything else worked just fine on the computer but no IE. Thinking it was just a program crash I continued my work with other apps and then shutdown the laptop. Next day when I booted, I get through the initial Windows XP screen (with thw loading bar) and then I get a popup box that tells me Winlogon.exe has an error (0x8401a173) memory can not be read. When I click OK then I get a BSOD 021a. Unit then goes into continuous cycle of rebooting. I can not get into Safe Mode either….same error….same BSOD. I can use a CD and get to recovery console. I am at a loss. I am now attempting to put the disk in as a slave so I can copy my files to another disk. I had no alerts from PC-cillin or anything. I know it is not HW related. Swapped out RAM…no change. Put in another HDD and the laptop boots and runs fine. I have obviously been zapped with some malicious code but don't know how to go about fixing since I can not even boot into a windows environment. I need help please.