Can spyware cause blue screen of death? If yes, how?

Question

Can spyware cause blue screen of death? If yes, how?

Answer 1

Anything is possible. Review this information on the "Blue Screen" to see if it will help.

Blue Screen of Death
The Blue Screen of Death (sometimes called "bluescreen", "stop error" or just abbreviated as "BSOD") is the popular name for the screen displayed by Microsoft's Windows operating system when it cannot recover from, or is in danger of being unable to recover from, a system error (the Microsoft term is Stop error). There are two Windows error screens that are both referred to as the blue screen of death, with one (Windows NT 4/2000/XP/Vista) being significantly more serious than the other (Windows 9x). There are several causes of the blue screen popping up. It can be a poorly-written device driver, bad memory, damaged registry or usage of incompatible versions of DLLs (see more on the "Types of blue screens" section).

The blue screen of death in one form or another has been present in all Windows operating systems since Windows version 3.1. It is the successor of the less well-known black screen of death that occurs in OS/2 as well as MS-DOS[1]. In early builds of Windows Vista it was complemented with a red screen of death, used for boot loader errors.
Blue Screen of Death – lots more information here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death#References

Blue Screen of Death
Source: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/b/blue_screen_of_death.html
Abbreviated BSOD, an error that can appear on computers running in a Windows environment. This includes even the earliest versions of Windows, such as Windows 3.0 and 3.1, and still occurs in later versions such as Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000. Jokingly called the blue screen of death because when the error occurs, the screen turns blue, and the computer almost always freezes and requires rebooting.

Blue Screen of Death – Link to fixes
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-fp&p=fix%20blue%20screen%20of%20death
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I would also go into Safe Mode and run your antivirus software and any antispyware you have.

If you are unfamiliar with Safe Mode, just click Start and press and hold the F8 key until you get a black and white menu. You will see Safe Mode, press the appropriate keys. This is the best way to check for viruses and spyware.

When you come out of Safe Mode, you may find your desktop icons displaced. No biggee. Drag them back.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Probably not, as spyware by definition reveals personal, sensitive info on the net. But, the way it does it may trip off some error in the OS and cause a BSOD.

Answer 4

Computer viruses can, if you haven't scanned your computer for viruses yet you had better.

Answer 5

confusing thing. look in google or bing. this can assist!