[jellybean]

I installed Ad Aware the other day and immediately my computer shut down. Rebooted and the same thing happened. This time when I rebooted I uninstalled Ad Aware and haven't had a problem since.

I've got Stop Sign which cost $4.oo a month and keeps my machine clean and Armor2Net as a firewall...it works great!!

[edchambers]

(I installed Ad Aware the other day and immediately my computer shut down. Rebooted and the same thing happened.)

Adaware will do this if you have a spyware program loaded into memory and running.It looks like you solved the problem but you could have rebooted to "safe mode" and then run Adaware.Sometimes if you have a machine that's really infected you'll have to do allot of work in safe mode to bring it back.The following programs are useful in safe mode; 1. "Add and remove Programs" from Control Panel 2."Windows Explorer" will allow you to delete things you might not otherwise be able to delete while they're running 3.Tweak Now RegCleaner will safely let you remove this stuff from your registry and create a backup just in case 4.Spybot,Adaware,and AVG will all run in safe mode so you can remove the junk before it's loaded back into memory.At this point if you still can't get rid of this stuff I usually just reformat and reinstall whatever operating system your running and be sure to get all the updates to include updates for your security stuff too.