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Strange XP problem
Name: Milk Date: October 8, 2003 at 05:27:58 Pacific OS: win XP CPU/Ram: Celeron 1.2GHz
Comment:
I have XP running on one of my computers and just the other day a dialog box popped up telling me it was going to shut the computer down in 60 seconds. Straight away i thought "Damn MSBlast worm!!" so i downloaded the MSBlast fix from symantec and ran it but it told me that i wasnt infected with MSBlast. I have no idea whats going on because i dont have much experience with XP so if anyone can help me i would be very gratefull.
Name: Jeff Date: October 8, 2003 at 05:41:20 Pacific
Reply:
there is an exploit before the worms came out to do just that. it didn't need any software, it would just shut down your computer unexpectedly. if you have a firewall, block port 135. if you have an anti-virus, update the .dat files and run a full scan. nimda also does the same thing as the blaster.
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Response Number 2
Name: Milk Date: October 8, 2003 at 05:52:09 Pacific
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Thanks,
I'll give it a try, just gotta get some new virus definitions, by the way this doesnt just happen when on the net it usually happens within about 5 mins of booting.
-Milk
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Response Number 3
Name: jeff Date: October 8, 2003 at 06:00:21 Pacific
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if it happens like you're saying, when it starts to shutdown, goto start, run, and in the box type in cmd and press enter. next type shutdown -a and that will abort the reboot process. then you can find out what the culprit is.
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Response Number 4
Name: Milk Date: October 8, 2003 at 06:05:25 Pacific
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yeah i am able to goto run and type shutdown -a and that aborts it but i have no idea whats causing it
Thanks, -Milk
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Response Number 5
Name: Grafdude Date: October 8, 2003 at 06:36:48 Pacific
Reply:
Check in your processes, I saw someone having the msblast.exe process, which is infected by the w32.blaster.worm.
End the process, delete the file and you should be fine then, if it ever happens you have the msblast.exe in your processes.
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