Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 17:47:19 06/09/04
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On June 09, 2004 at 18:41:16, Jeff White wrote: >On June 09, 2004 at 17:18:00, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On June 09, 2004 at 15:10:12, steven blincoe wrote: >> >>>>Sounds like the sasser worm. Here are the fixes: >>>> >>>>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=76c6de7e-1b6b-4fc3-90d4-9fa42d14cc17&displaylang=en >>>> >>>>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sasser.removal.tool.html >>> >>>hope the fix takes less time to work then 2-5 minutes >>>:)) >>>Steve >> >>The Microsoft one takes around 3 seconds to use, and the Symantec one only takes >>about 1 minute. So he has plenty of time. :) >> >>Peter > >Okay, I was a little off on the timing. I have about 1 minute before a complete >shutdown. I tried to run the microsoft one, but it says that there is no virus >detected. Still stuck. Any suggestions? Thanks for the help. > >Regards, >Jeff If you don't have antivirus software and a firewall (which it sounds like you don't), you need to get that installed. Since you can't keep the computer on for more than a minute, that may be difficult. Can you boot in safe mode or anything? If you could get an antivirus program running, that would probably detect whatever it is. The only other thing I can think of is that it might be a hardware problem. Is it actually shutting down the computer like it would if you shut it down yourself properly, or is it just turning itself off instantly? My brother had an old computer that had some messed up BIOS settings that caused the computer to halt not long after loading Windows. The computer was getting too hot or something (he probably tried to overclock without knowing what he was doing), so the computer shut itself off. I did the same thing once, but that computer never even made it to the BIOS setup screen and I had to reset the BIOS via the jumpers on the motherboard.
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