Malicious shut down???

[ticotur]

I was working, when a friend came to chat on the msn messenger... After a couple o messages he said. I´ll call you back on the mobile. Then suddenly my laptop shut down as if the mains was off. I almost panicked, and noticed I had mains in the room. I said that´s the end of my 2 year laptop. Kept my fingers crossed and boot it up again. It worked fine as usually.
I have Win XP pro, NORTON updated and firewall set to medium.
Question. Is it possible that my friend I was logged with (who loves to play the hacker) sent me a malicious command to shut off my computer? or isWindows XP safe enough and that is not possible!
Thanks for your expert comments.
Ticotur

[GiPilot12]

Welcome to TIMO!

I think that Windows XP is safe enough that you should not worry about being hacked through a messanger program, especially a common messanger like MSN. If I had to guess, I think that it was just a random error or something like that.

[Milwaukee]

Welcome to this forum

Well can you click control panel then click Administrator tools then look at event viewer then click system or security or applican see if it have red x mean it problem. Then copy info then paste on this so we can see what cause restart.

And click right button on my computer then look at properties then click advance then look at start up and recovery's setting then uncheck on system failure's auto restart.

Then see if you got blue screen mean some not work right.

[sr71000]

with laptops immediate shutdowns like that are usually a sign of heat troubles. I'd buy a can of compressed air and clean out the dust! don't tip the can (so that the spray turns white and icy) and don't keep blasting at the computer. you can over rev the fans and break em! just my .02 (they can also do this from static buildup...so if it doesn't keep happening chances are it was just a fluke!

[ticotur]

Originally Posted by Milwaukee

Welcome to this forum

Well can you click control panel then click Administrator tools then look at event viewer then click system or security or applican see if it have red x mean it problem. Then copy info then paste on this so we can see what cause restart.

And click right button on my computer then look at properties then click advance then look at start up and recovery's setting then uncheck on system failure's auto restart.

Then see if you got blue screen mean some not work right.

Malicious Shut Down???
My Event Viewer System shows lots of errors and warnings
Error ---TCPIP
Warning ---IPNATHLP or W32Time (many times)

in Security I have quite few "Failure audit" on the first column, some anonimous logon, network service, local service, system, and my inicials on another right column
The day of the shut down was 31st at arround 18:38 H ( my clock was 15 days ahead real date was March 15)
View all page: http://familiamarista.org/EventViewer_Security.txt

[Milwaukee]

Originally Posted by ticotur

Malicious Shut Down???
My Event Viewer System shows lots of errors and warnings
Error ---TCPIP
Warning ---IPNATHLP or W32Time (many times)

in Security I have quite few "Failure audit" on the first column, some anonimous logon, network service, local service, system, and my inicials on another right column
The day of the shut down was 31st at arround 18:38 H ( my clock was 15 days ahead real date was March 15)
View all page: http://familiamarista.org/EventViewer_Security.txt

How many red error? 10 to 20?

Well did you got blue screen?

[ticotur]

1 - Red errors much more than 20; sometimes in series of 5, 10 even more.
2- Errors with blue screen, never had one.

I would like to know if my computer could had been turned off by a malicious command from any computer I was connected to, or if it was probably just an internal glitch or similar.

I DEEPELY THANK THOSE WHO HELPED me to know what was the problem.

http://familiamarista.org/event_viewer_system.txt

[Milwaukee]

Originally Posted by ticotur

1 - Red errors much more than 20; sometimes in series of 5, 10 even more.
2- Errors with blue screen, never had one.

I would like to know if my computer could had been turned off by a malicious command from any computer I was connected to, or if it was probably just an internal glitch or similar.

I DEEPELY THANK THOSE WHO HELPED me to know what was the problem.

http://familiamarista.org/event_viewer_system.txt

Well I have heard about virus can get in im program.

Ok did you try free avg anti spyware
Then tell me how many it found infection

[Milwaukee]

here link for avg free edition http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng...i-spyware-free

[quickoldcar]

I'm not going to tell you what to do but after reading your logs I'm going to suggest trying the following.

http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

or

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Also I recommend uninstalling Norton and maybe try Kaspersky Internet Security for an everyday solution to blocking dangerous attacks to your computer.

It is a very well made product and I have used it a few years now and trouble free.

And in my opinion anything can come through MSN because you allow it to.
Has file sharing,direct connections with Remote Assistance and many other features some good and bad.

I myself stopped installing MSN messenger on anyone's computer as I always see them have issues.

I recommend Trillian and use this for all your Messaging.
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
It will do the following messaging: AIM,ICQ,IRC,Jabber,MSN Messenger,Rendezvous and Yahoo.

I also stopped using Internet Explorer and use Firefox as my default Browser

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/