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RPC keeps shutting down laptop!

  • 05-01-2004 9:58pm
    #1
    KlodaX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭


    Hey

    I borrowed a laptop from someone who had it previously connected to a network.
    Windows XP is on it and I am now using it to connect to the Internet.

    It is only connect 3 mins before I get:

    This system is shutting down. please save all work....
    initiated by NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM

    I get one min before it shuts dow..


Comments

  • #2
    zAbbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    when that happens go

    start > run > shutdown -a

    That will give you enough time to download the msblaster batch of which ur infected by.

    A quick search on these boards will provide the exact details


  • #3
    PhoenixRising
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭PhoenixRising


    I think you've got the MS Blaster virus. Go here to get the removal tool http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html.


  • #4
    Armadillo
    Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Armadillo


    Sounds like the blaster virus....watch for the w32.welchia.worm too.
    I think a lot of us have been there...
    You better update your antivirus while you're at it.


  • #5
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    Prevention is better than cure. Disable the DCOM hole that allows blaster & friends in. There's a 29k program called DCOMbobulator, get it here.

    http://www.grc.com/files/DCOMbob.exe

    Civilian_Target


  • #6
    oneweb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,147 ✭✭✭oneweb


    Poxy bloody comps in college had the poxy bloody Blaster virus when I went to demonstrate my final year project :mad: Thank God for Mozilla, otherwise my whold project would have been useless the way IE ended up showing (or rather not showing) it!

    Anyway, get and install the Windows Patch after you clear the virus.

    It is what it's.



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  • #7
    KlodaX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭KlodaX


    tanks.

    Thank you ever so. That shutdown -a was dead handy.. cheers baz.

    Twas the blaster virus ..... all better now...

    now for the bobulator ...
    :D *ye gotto love the names*


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