xp shuts down, reboots

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 04/04/04 

Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:40:40 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>I get a very tidy message with a 60 second
>countdown, "Shutdown Initiated by NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM"
>and in the second half of the window, system is shutting
>down, RPC terminated unexpectedly. Then XP (home) shuts
>down/restarts. So far this would only seem to be while
>on line (the PC in question is a Dell P3/866, recent
>upgrade to 512MB RAM), new upgrade from Windows ME,
>running the dell MSN as the ISP. Any help? thanks in
>advance
>
>.
>
Sorry to say but thats a virus...i got it once:( Its called
the Blaster Worm.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html
Theres a link to the removal tool

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