Black Screen Crash Accompanied By Strange Entries In Pfirewall.log

[Guest]

For several weeks I've experienced a black screen crash in which everything is frozen; not able to ctl-alt-del, etc. but I can hold down the power button to turn power off. Then of course I get the check disk screen upon rebooting.

I have the ICF enabled and security logging of dropped packets and successful connections. I examined the pfirewall.log and found UDP dropped packets but when the computer crashes, there's a dump of HTML source code of web pages from websites I visited, some error or warning messages that I had experienced recently are in the dump, and even paths on my C: drive are listed. Also there's some non-readable stuff in the log. It is quite lengthy and occupies the fields that normally show the date,time, action, protocol, src-ip, etc. It's like a mixed up dump or sorts. Another thing about the UDP dumps is that the source IP is mine and the destination IP is a multi cast - It makes me think I have a trojan or worm

I downloaded Ad-aware and Spybot S&D and got rid of some spyware it detected and it is still crashing with the strange dump in the pfirewall.log.

I've researched the internet using different search engines for something like I'm experiencing but have yet to find anyone experiencing or at least mentioning the accompanying strange pfirewall.log entries after a crash occurs.

I had already updated Windows XP's latest critical security patches; used Microsoft's Blaster detector and it checked out okay

I'm literally at my wits end. Can someone HELP

Helen V

 

[Rich Barry]

Helen, flaky Power Supply?

For several weeks I've experienced a black screen crash in which

everything is frozen; not able to ctl-alt-del, etc. but I can hold down the
power button to turn power off. Then of course I get the check disk screen
upon rebooting.

I have the ICF enabled and security logging of dropped packets and

successful connections. I examined the pfirewall.log and found UDP dropped
packets but when the computer crashes, there's a dump of HTML source code
of web pages from websites I visited, some error or warning messages that I
had experienced recently are in the dump, and even paths on my C: drive are
listed. Also there's some non-readable stuff in the log. It is quite
lengthy and occupies the fields that normally show the date,time, action,
protocol, src-ip, etc. It's like a mixed up dump or sorts. Another thing
about the UDP dumps is that the source IP is mine and the destination IP is
a multi cast - It makes me think I have a trojan or worm.

I downloaded Ad-aware and Spybot S&D and got rid of some spyware it

detected and it is still crashing with the strange dump in the
pfirewall.log.

I've researched the internet using different search engines for something

like I'm experiencing but have yet to find anyone experiencing or at least
mentioning the accompanying strange pfirewall.log entries after a crash
occurs.

I had already updated Windows XP's latest critical security patches; used

Microsoft's Blaster detector and it checked out okay.

 

[Guest]

Rich, thanks for your reply - have you heard of the flaky power supply doing this with the dump when it crashes?