Epic Freeze Of Death - Safe Mode Not Working - Malware/Virus?

[Mulreay]

lol that's our next project the 'weather hope' forum! With a little advice you can pick and choose the best weather suited just for you! 

[angel_below]

Lol,  can we add location to it? Because I definately want to be at the beach with nice warm weather. No more of this cold rain stuff that keeps coming through here. I'd even bring my laptop and help other location/weather hopers. 

Chkdsk just reached 32%. .....yay.

[BC_Programmer]

well I'm off to work in a few minutes... see you guys in 10 hours or so probably   

[angel_below]

Okey dokey! Thanks for all your help so far! 

[Mulreay]

Okey dokey! Thanks for all your help so far! 

Post the results we will try to help.

[Quantos]

lol that's our next project the 'weather hope' forum! With a little advice you can pick and choose the best weather suited just for you! 

Tomorrow we will have weather, followed by a 100% chance of darkness.

[angel_below]

Lol, awesome. That made things super simple.

Chkdsk is about 75% completed in part 5 out of 5. Takes forever, lol.

[Quantos]

Yes it does, and the bigger the HDD the longer it takes.

[angel_below]

It finished chkdsk and booted up and said everything was fine.

Attempted to run Avast! but it ran its memory test and did nothing again. Tried to bring up Malwarebytes but its not coming up either. And it just froze again. Only thing moving is the mouse. 

[KillerOrange]

i'm not an expert, but if you can, open task manager when the desktop appears and go to processes and see if a certain process is eating lots of memory.  you can end process if you find the problem, but it will likely restart itself.  and try renaming malwarebytes from "mbam.exe" to "ihatevirusesgoshdangit.exe" haha.  sometimes viruses will block programs they recognize as a common anti-malware solution, but renaming the file will fool it.

[angel_below]

Hm, I was able to get the task manager up in the first seconds. It has yet to freeze now that I have brought it up. I don't want to stop anything from running that I dont know what it is, so here's the top 10 memory users:

ashServ.exe (24,620)  <---I have no idea what this is, I've never seen it before. 
explorer.exe (20,384)
veohwebplayer.exe (17,740)
hpqste08 (13,908)
svchost.exe (13,296)
aim6.exe (10,676)
aolsoftware.exe (9,640)
hpqtra08.exe (9,376)
iTunesHelper.exe (9,025)
BigFix.exe (7,840)

And of course they're changing, but meh. I don't know what some of this stuff is on the list...

[Quantos]

Hm, I was able to get the task manager up in the first seconds. It has yet to freeze now that I have brought it up. I don't want to stop anything from running that I dont know what it is, so here's the top 10 memory users:

ashServ.exe (24,620)  <---I have no idea what this is, I've never seen it before. 

That's the service for Avast anti-virus.

[angel_below]

Ah, I see. Anything I should bother shutting down? Or should I type up the entire list?

[Quantos]

Give us all of it.

<maniacal laughter>  We want it all..  </maniacal laughter>

[angel_below]

Uh... heheh... 

Kay here I go typin' it all:
explorer.exe
veohwebplayer.exe
hpqste08.exe
svchost.exe
ashServ.exe
aim6.exe
hpqtra08.exe
aolsoftware.exe
iTunesHelper.exe
BigFix.exe
ALCWZRD.EXE
Mssscli.exe
mcagent.exe
spoolsv.exe
taskmgr.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
aolsoftware.exe
hpqimzone.exe
Ymsgr_tray.exe
services.exe
zHotkey.exe
avast.setup
ashMailSv,exe (SYSTEM)
svchost.exe
iPodService.exe (SYSTEM)
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
csrss.exe
mDNSResponder.exe
svchost.exe
hkcmd.exe
Msssrv.exe
jusched.exe
ctfmon.exe
winlogon.exe
PDVDServ.exe
McTskshd.exe
igfxpers.exe
SOUNDMAN.EXE
AppleMoblieDeviceService.exe
Mcdetect.exe
shwiconEM.exe
ViewpointService.exe
QTTask.exe
hpwuSchd2.exe
HPZipm12.exe (SYSTEM)  <---Keeps popping in and out of the list.
ViewMgr.exe
PRISMXL.SYS
ashDsip.exe
wdmfgr.exe
ashWebSv.exe (SYSTEM)
jqs.exe
AOLacsd.exe
AOLSP Scheduler.exe
lsass.exe
GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe
smss.exe
aswUpdSv.exe
System
System Idle Process (SYSTEM)

That took a while by hand, lol.