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Automatic shutdown on WinXP
Name: kamtono Date: December 13, 2004 at 07:27:39 Pacific OS: Red Hat Linux 9.0 CPU/Ram: 128 MB
Comment:
one of my office computer have some problems recently, we only had 1 WinXP SP 1 installed, connected with LAN, but after 2 months ago i have this annoying problems, suddenly at monitor computer inform me that this computer will shutdown in 1 minutes, i want to asked
is this really virus ? if this kind of virus why my norton av can't scan this virus ? (i update regulary once a week) any patch maybe ? why when i CTRL+ALT+DEL all user name at process is (unknown name)
Name: TimH Date: December 13, 2004 at 08:10:02 Pacific
Reply:
Check your startup (msconfig) for any unusual applications that could be causing it
There are over 35 viruses released every day, you should try and keep your virus checker more up to date ;)
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Response Number 2
Name: jabuck Date: December 13, 2004 at 09:00:09 Pacific
Reply:
The 60 second timed shutdown is a sasser worm trait. You can go to start> run> type "shutdown -a " (without the quotes and note the space shutdown) >ok to abort the shutdown.
You need to have Stinger downloaded to a floppy and ready to run in the infected computer. Write protect the floppy with the plastic tab. It will remove sasser if that is the problem.
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Response Number 3
Name: JackG Date: December 14, 2004 at 02:17:26 Pacific
Reply:
Best to do that in Safe Mode. Today I saw Sasser shut down Stinger after it was running and killing parts of it, while in Normal Mode. Had to go to Safe Mode so Stinger could run all the way through and get all of it.
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