A series of unfortunate technical events

It was sometime ago when I had problems with my laptop. The last occurrence was the attack of Antivirus 2008 through a fake codec scam.That Antivirus 2008 is not what it claims to be. It's actually a rogue software- a hoax to swindle people's money by claiming the presence of non-existent threats. That pesky program even mocked me by hijacking my desktop wallpaper. Such a nuisance. Luckily, I was able to get rid of it using Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.
But , just now a series of unfortunate technical events occured. Pretty much reminded me that I shouldn't laugh at people.You never know how fast things might turn around and strike at you. Well, suddenly my web browsers was unable to display webpages. I was connected to the Internet; my downloads were still running.But Google Chrome displayed this :
Error 2 (net::ERR_FAILED): Unknown error.
None of the pages seem to load. My Internet Explorer 7 went with the typical:

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

Firefox was worst . The whole page was blank , and nothing was displayed

Initially , I thought it was due to some of the tweaks I did to Bittorrent;thus, I resetted all the settings.However, the problem persist. Darn. Frustrated, I restarted the window. Only to be greeted by this :



Again and again. No joke. It restarted over and over again. After 5 or 6 times , I rebooted in safe mode and ran an malware scan on the system. Then , it came to me that I just installed Rapidshare Plus, a software to help me download files from rapidshare.As a free user, I don't have a premium account. You know me, I don't pay for what I can get for free. >_<

Something you might be familiar with, after your computer reboots from an error.



And I saw this for the first time.

Being paranoid, I went on with a full adware scan after that incident. It's better to be safe than sorry.
ps- the 28 infections were just some Internet Explorer cookies from some advertising sites.