Question: why does my system often seem to recover from serious error? Is there a virus? 

Answer: From experience, it could either be some bad programming in some of the 3rd party applications you're running, it could be a driver error or it could be a hardware problem. I have had all 3 on different XP based systems at different times.\n\nCould you give a little more information?
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