Windows Urgent Xp Help

[extremegamer]

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????

 

[WhizzBang]

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?

 

[extremegamer]

just ran Norton Anti-virus, nothing was detected.

 

[generalnmx]

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).

 

[trooper]

Try AVG at www.grisoft.com.

Trooper

 

[ColinR]

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.

 

[mikepaktinat]

Is it an RPC error? if so lookup balster worm and boot into safe mode with-out networking to remove

 

[extremegamer]

all fixed up, thanks all for the help

 

[generalnmx]

What was the real problem, and the solution? To help future generations, and general curiosity.

 

[Racemaniac]

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]

or just set up a firewall and a virus scanner before connecting to the internet.

 

[trooper]

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

 

[Horscht]

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)

 

[Squidge]

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.

 

[Anox]

A Router is in this case a blessing

 

[divadsci]

Heh i downloaded a firewall, just havent installed it yet. Havent got a virus scan either. Maybe i should sort that out

 

[trooper]

Try AVG http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php, Free, Very good at what it does (ie, One of the best), And does not hog the system.

Trooper