Hi irv,
There are several FAQs on blue-screening/freezing/crashing in the
Lavasoft Support Forums > FAQ's > Ad-Aware SE > Technical section of the forum
hereThere may also be some tricks that could help you in the suggested fixes for "scan freezes" - see the whole list of them in this post:
conditional scans? pc gets stuck on thoseWork your way through the relevant items (there are 2 pages of FAQs) - if at the end, you are still having problems, we can pass you on to the malware experts knowing that we have tried every other possibility
Let us know how you get on,
Regards,
Spike