I have received the blue hummingbird screen of death!

[spencer]

Hello,
I have the same laptop as you matey and to be honest i agree dell are crap... I scrapped my laptop as i placed it down to a virus and just bought a packard bell which is also just as shite lol

Best thing to do is give it a day to sort itself out if it does and loads windows re install it if it doesnt then time to bin it

Their costumer service is just as crap as their product too lol.

Should I just keep it turned off for a day then? I've been hoping it'll just work itself out but I'm getting really impatient.

[72jay]

I didn't download anything. My computer was fine then I went to work, came back and tried to get back on it and it was all crazy. I've got a feeling I got a virus or something.

You very well could have had a virus delivered through a Worm...for that you don't need to download anything (or for that matter even have your browser open or even be touching the computer) it just needs to be turned on & connected to the internet.

It tells me to restart my computer and select an operating system but I don't know how to do that? I'm not given an option to select an operating system when I turn the computer on.

Sounds like that is a generic message, It should only ask to select an operating system if you have more than one installed. Say for example you had both Windows & Linux, then it'd give an option to select one when you turned it on.

[Pix]

Pix give this a try, with regards to Rootkit detection

Do you have a favorite?

I was going to go with GMER but my computer was making warnings against it so before I did I was wondering if you used them? If you did then I'll figure it is safe and tell my computer to go ahead despite its warnings.

Thanks for the link and for any more advice you can share. mile: