Question Blue screen of death after downloading a torrent

Sep 24, 2019
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Hi, a few days ago I downloaded a program via utorrent but I suspended the installation for fear it was a malware, from then on every now and then my computer occasionally makes the blue screen of death and restarts

I tried to do an advanced scan with windows defender but found nothing, could it be a virus? Is it something that can do permanent damage to my pc? Could it be fixed?
 

Colif

Win 11 Master
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which version of windows?

if you still getting bsod,
Can you follow option one on the following link - here - and then do this step below: Small memory dumps - Have Windows Create a Small Memory Dump (Minidump) on BSOD - that creates a file in c windows/minidump after the next BSOD

copy that file to documents

upload the copy from documents to a file sharing web site, and share the link in your thread so we can help fix the problem
 
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Make a Memtest86 USB flash drive, boot from it, see if you can loop on the test a few hours with no errors...

Your issues could be unrelated.

If malware/botched OS-related, a quick restore from backup or full quick format/reinstall should have you in 'non-blue screen' status quickly...

If your system boots fine, do you have a restore pint from before the attempted/aborted installation of bogus crap?