hi, well today out the blue, my computer started playing up, when i connected to the internet, the computer shut down... the power just went off, no 'shutting down' dialogue or anything. then it restarts and comes up with 'enter in safe mode' 'enter last system restore when the system was normal' 'open windows normally' when i open windows normally, it just restarts, when i enter from last system restore, it works, until i connect to the internet, where the cycle starts again i did a virus scan, and it came up with a few adware things, which i deleted, but no proper viruses were detected please help me i really need my PC up and running this weekend, and if you wandered how im using the internet at the moment im on my mac blah

I'd suspect a power supply problem. Try swapping it out if you have access to another PSU. "I know that I'm mad, I've always been mad"

whats a psu? its never happened before, so why suddenly now? blah

PSU is Power Supply Unit. To me your problem is like you are getting a Worm installed into your computer when you get onto the Internet. Like sometime back the Blaster Worm was infecting computers, just by getting on the Internet. How are you in having any Windows Updates ? Here are the only ones I use, if the links still work, you can download, save and install- An RPC patch: MS03-026: Buffer Overrun in RPC May Allow Code Execution ------------------- Another RPC patch: MS03-039: A Buffer Overrun in RPCSS Could Allow an Attacker to Run Malicious Programs ------------------- Another critical update issued 2/10/2004: ASN.1 Vulnerability Could Allow Code Execution (828028)

thanks for the help, ill try it out blah

Hi, If its a worm you can stop your computer from restarting without warning by right clicking on my computer and clicking properties.Then click the advanced tab. Then under Startup and Recovery section click settings then untick the box that says automatically restart.Do the above before you connect to the internet and hopefully this will either stop it or at least give you a error message to try and solve the problems. If not a worm It may be a driver problem. Could I also ask exactly how you connect to internet? Good-Luck Declan

yeah i connect through a usb alcatel modem, on bt broadband ill try that out, thanks blah