I am using Windows XP Professional Edition Sp2 on a Core2Duo 2.53 Ghz Machine with 2 Gigs of RAM. I am running the latest free version of Avast Antivirus updated daily

I have been using a software called Hotspot Shield for viewing Youtube and other streaming media content normally not available in my country but for the last few days whenever I start the Hotspot Shied Program, it gives me a blue screen of death with the following messages. I have tried uninstalling the program but even during uninstallation it gives the same blue screen of death with same messages and hence I cant unistall it.

The message is as under

Stop: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0xA86A9A6A, 0xa78AC8D0, 0x00000000)
aswsp.sys- Address A86A9A6A base at A8691000 datestamp 4be328e2

Beginning dump of Physical Memory

I have to restart the computer to get rid of this blue screen


Can anyone help as why is this occuring and whats the remedy