I just tried using Autoruns and changing the 2 startup entries before reinstalling Nod32. It didn't help. Next I will try the following when I get some more time: (it takes some time because of all the crashes before I can actually get the dang laptop booted and me logged in)
1, disable real-time protection
2, disable protocol filtering
3, rename C:\Windows\System32\drivers\eamonm.sys in safe mode
4, rename C:\Windows\System32\drivers\ehdrv.sys in safe mode