Windows Urgent Xp Help


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I had to recover my hard drive and reinstall windows xp, now when i get on the interent, about 5-10 minutes into it, I get some error and windows automatically shuts down my entire computer, how can you stop this, what the hell is going on????
 
I had this for a while ages ago and it turned out to be some kind of virus. It may not be the case for you but have you ran any anti virus stuff on your PC recently?
 
just ran Norton Anti-virus, nothing was detected.
 
Sounds like you have the Blaster Worm. By reinstalling XP, you probably deleted the update which protected you from the virus (it might have even still been on your system, just not functioning properly because of the update).

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


You are even more suspectible to the Blaster Worm and its varients when you aren't running a proper NAT firewall (usually a router will provide this).
 
I installed Xp on our internet server machine here and started running the Express install of Service Pack One. Before I'd even finished the PC caught the worm and started rebooting itself! In the end I downloaded the network install on this machine using GetRight because the server kept rebooting, and updated it using that. Tedious to say the least.
 
blasterworm?
easy to bypass :)
with a highspeed connection you can download the patch for the rpc thingy in time :)
then just reboot (normally) and disconnect all networkcables, it won't bother you again, patch your windows, then just stop the process and remove it from the launchsequence ofwindows, and it's gone ^^
 
jegHegy posted on Feb 7 2004 at 09:53 PM said:
or just set up a firewall and a virus scanner before connecting to the internet.
Thats not always possible. Attacks can happen almost immediately, Especially when updating virus software with the latest dat files, Bam. As no offline virus software is completely uptodate.

Trooper
 
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when this window about shuttoing Windows down appears, go to start->execute(or domething) and type "shutdown -a". this stops the shutdoen process, and you can update windows and install that Blaster worm patch (i had the problem yesterday, too, because i got a new laptop)
 
With XP, I find that just enabling the built-in firewall works for keeping Blaster and it's friends out until you can download the appropriate service packs.
 
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