comp shutting down by its self

[riiix]

Every once in a while this window pops up on my computer counting down from a minute saying my computer is going to shut down because of some file and then my computer restarts and its starting to do this more and more and becoming a real pain does anyone know how to fix this. i thought it was a virus but I have McAfee virus scan and it should work. If any one could help me out that would be great.[IMG]C:\Documents and Settings\rix\My Documents\My Pictures\problem.JPG[/IMG]

[intolerant]

read about the blaster worm on mircosoft and norton's sites. sounds like you got it, and quite late i might add.

[muno]

Your virusscan is useless unless you update the database regularly.

Get the stinger from network associates site, run it, and patch your os like intolerant suggested.
-M

[deider]

I went to the web site you recommended in the last post and i cannot find the stinger im new to the virus stuff and i have the same problem
Deider

thanks for helping !!

[muno]

Here's a linky-link
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=stinger
-M

[jkrohn]

Stinger is a VERY useful tool. It may not be able to complete a scan though before your computer shuts down, (seen it happen )

If this is the case, you get the reboot message, do this
Start -> Run - > command
Type shutdown -a and press enter,

This will stop the shutdown sequence, but will not prevent if from happening agina. You will need to do as often as necessary while stinger runs.

Jkrohn

[muno]

If your computer insists on shutting down, you might want to try and kill the 'msblast.exe' from task manager.

It might prevent the crashing (thou I cannot verify this as I haven't seen a system that would crash with the 1minute countdown).

(press ctrl-alt-del, select task manager, look for 'msblast.exe' and click terminate or whatever the kill button is)
-M

[deider]

I tried to write down ecactly what it says Generic host process win32 services then this was initiated by authencity/system will restart remote process all rpc

something like that then you click ok and it counts down and reboots



thanks i will try it
deider

[deider]

Muno I tried looking for msblaster and it is not there or anytyhing resembling it thanks deider

im going to try the link now

[deider]

i tried the link and it did what it was suposed to and yes i have the w32/lovsan.worm.virus so now what it did its thing and is that it.
It said one file bad and one deleted so is it not going to happen again.
Thanks you guys rock !!!

Deider