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The only time I've seen a BSoD was when I was running the release candidate of Win7. I was trying to install a Cisco VPN client on the machine and it gave me some issues when installing it, but installed. Of course, since the program wasnt written for Win7, it ultimately didnt work. However, when I went to uninstall, BSoD.

I actually cannot recall the last time I had to boot into Safe Mode in Win7. I've had to do it in Vista a couple of times, because of the same task you're working on now. Those fake anti-virus programs really do get into the system, some worse than others, where you almost cant do anything. One time, I had to get in with command prompt only to remove something that had completely taken over the desktop, so traditional safe mode would not work. Needless to say, it was quite challenging to get the rogue crap off of the system.