What does this MEAN?

[Selkie]

Ok, for the second time now, as I was on the nets, my computer randomly crashed, and a blue screen appeared with writing saying something like "the computer has suffered a blah blah something"

then it says "begin dumping of something memory"

then "dumping complete"

then a bunch of other shit.

And I have to hold the power button to turn it off then turn it back on again...

I have a Dell pc with windows xp.

HALP

[Nyerp]

extremely malignant computer viruses

[ME##]

It sounds like a virus of some sort.

[Infel]

It sounds like a regular Blue Screen of Death to me.

[snorkel]

It's a blue screen of death, there are many causes. If you have a laptop I'd guess overheating, otherwise defective RAM is often the culprit. Copy down the 0x00040394 etc thing and google it.

[Selkie]

Oh okay.

I'm pretty sure then it overheated or something then, cause my McCaffe security center says says my computer is completely fine, and I did a full scan.

Thank the flying spaghetti monster its not a virus/spyware.

[snorkel]

Oh okay.

I'm pretty sure then it overheated or something then, cause my McCaffe security center says says my computer is completely fine, and I did a full scan.

Thank the flying spaghetti monster its not a virus/spyware.

It wouldn't be a virus, it would most likely be some driver having an error or windows having a kernel crash