06-19-2024, 05:30 PM
BSODs may not be the outcome of malware activity. In fact, properly made malware will never vandalize the host system, unless it is designed to do so. Despite how well Windows works nowadays, it may still injure itself during system reset or similar "harsh" events. This, or the reset somehow mangled your disk, creating bad sectors and eventually making the system malfunction.
P.S. if the suspected malware hides in the BIOS/mobo firmware, regular antiviruses will be useless against it as malware in that case runs on lower ring levels than what the antivirus does. But I sincerely question whether a regular user may get such a complicated malware, I mean, it exists, but sees brief application in targeted attacks, and will never give an obvious clue like a console window or a BSOD.
P.S. if the suspected malware hides in the BIOS/mobo firmware, regular antiviruses will be useless against it as malware in that case runs on lower ring levels than what the antivirus does. But I sincerely question whether a regular user may get such a complicated malware, I mean, it exists, but sees brief application in targeted attacks, and will never give an obvious clue like a console window or a BSOD.