Blue screen 0x000007B after using Malwarebytes (System Restore turned-off)

[vr6rafal]

Last night a PC i was cleaning up will not longer boot and shows blue screen 0x000007b.

I just started the cleanup, here's exactly what I did:
1. disabled startup items with msconfig,
2. Turned-off system restore
3. Scanned system with Malwarebytes (found 7 infections)

after restart system will no longer boot, restarts as soon as Windows logo appears, diabling "automatic restart on failure" shows Blue Screen with error code 0x0000007b.

I ran chkdsk /r which did not help, ran fixmbr which did not help.

My thinking it could be a bootsector virus or the infection that malwarebytes cleaned up was a system file or important registry entry.

I'm little puzzled because if it was missing file wouldn't i get "cannot start because file is missing...." not a 0x000007b blue screen which by the way could mean 10 different things.

worst thing is, system restore is turned-off so no way of going back in time!!

Any idea for a quick fix to this blue screen, I dont want to nuke and pave, as this computer has a lot of stuff.
I will try to repair-install see what happenss, but that means have to backup before doing it.

 

[NickCat11]

Can you get into safe mode? Did you load the UBCD and try a registry restore?

 

[iisjman07]

Look at the MalwareBytes log. On my Vista machine it is located at

C:\Users\Jimmy\AppData\Roaming\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\Logs

Note: Quoting that location put a space between the 'e' second MalwareBytes, so don't copy and paste it as it won't work

 

[vr6rafal]

Can I restore registry if system restore is turned off? Registry is backed up separately?

Can't boot into safemode.

I did not yet try the log file to see what was deleted.

 

[ITMAN]

i had the same thing,

ran xp repair, reinstall updates, perfect...

 

[AtYourService]

did you just turn off restore ?
there may be a rollback you can use still