My computer shuts down every five minutes!

[ElectricStorm]

Help!

Whenever I go on my computer this comes up, "This system is shutting down, this sutdown was initiated by Nt Authority/System

And then it shuts down....

Whenever I try to run the Sobig cleaner hoping that that's all it is, it says it's caused an error and has to close....

SOMEBODY HELP!?!

 

[Stryper]

you have msblast


go here
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

 

[ElectricStorm]

Whoa, thanks allot man.

 

[::.Emerald.::]

Ohhhhh I had that one too.. it was awful! Have you upgraded your virus protection as well?

 

[Apologist]

What anti-virus are you using?

 

[doofus125]

<-----Got Norton?

 

[Apologist]

<-----Got Norton?

Had it, uninstalled it and now all is well.

 

[Stryper]

Had it, uninstalled it and now all is well.

had it, uninstalled it, still get a message popping up when i open ms programs.

 

[doofus125]

had it, uninstalled it, still get a message popping up when i open ms programs.

What message are you getting and what version of NAV did you uninstall?

 

[Krazeekkc]

I had that one too!!!!! Try unpluging your coputer and then plug it back in.

 

[Mister Ale]

A good free anti-virus program I personally like is Anti-Vir. I'd post a link to it if I could, but you can find it via Google (search 'anti-vir').

 

[doofus125]

I had that one too!!!!! Try unpluging your coputer and then plug it back in.

NO NO NO, Bad Idea....First of all, it doesn't get rid of the virus, but unpluging the computer while it's on it bad.....it allows your data to become corrupted.....what you need to do when faced with this blaster worm is to restart the system, turn on the windows XP firewall, go online and then go to the windows update site and download the patch and then go to www.symantec.com and search for the "msblaster worm" and it will have a tool to remove it......I realize that it may shutdown your computer, but I may have an idea to get around it that is worth a try.....when the shutdown box pops up saying that Authority/NT Administrator is shutting down the system (I think that's what it says)....Go to Start, then Click Run.....put this in the run box and click ok...... shutdown -a ............that shutdown -a should abort the shutdown and give u a chance to get the patch and the utility to remove the worm.......from my understanding of the Blaster worm it doesn't cause any damage to the system, all it does is shuts the computer down when you go online.....kinda stupid, lol....