There are multiple issues at play here. The issue I experienced was most certainly because I had an external USB HDD attached to my computer....
Just a follow-up to my own 'solution' above -- turns out there is still a problem with NOD32, because my machine still freezes up on boot. How...
I have XPSP2 and was experiencing the freeze-after-boot issue as well. I did a clean uninstall, rebooted, and installed 5.0.95.0. It still...
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