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Today I let my cousin use my PC for the majority of the day while I was out and I've come home to a PC thats FUBAR. He won't tell me what he did or what site he visited because he's scared to death that I'll kill him, which I'm going to do anyways.

My initial symptoms were an extremely sluggish PC. It took forever to do the simplest things like open a folder with 5 Word docs in it. I ran Kaspersky I.S. 6.0 and came up empty. Zero infections. I have WinPatrol and there is two weird .dll files that keep attempting to install themselves as files that run auto. when Vista starts. I've denied them the opportunity to install every time.

I hit the reset button on my PC to try and enter into safe mode and now all the PC does is give me B.S.O.D. ...At this point I've realized my PC is seriously FUBAR.

My next step that I decided to take was to just reinstall Vista, or so I thought. I rebooted, entered my BIOS told it to boot from my DVD drive and popped in my Vista install disc and rebooted again. The PC attempts to boot from the Vista DVD and then before I can even enter into any menu or anything I get BSOD.


So, what the hell do I do? Here are two shots of the BSOD I'm getting, however the BSOD error message is different every time it seems like.

Any help or ideas would be appreciated guys.

Sorry for the crappy first pic.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e340/rufio1066/S4010017.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e340/rufio1066/S4010018.jpg


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