Re: computer shuts down itself

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From: many-idaho (manyidaho_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:02:01 -0700

Thanks Ken:
Here is the full message:
The system is shutting down. Please save all work in progress and log off.
Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shut down was initiated by
NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM
Time before shut down: 00:00:45
Message
The system process
'C:/WINNT/SYSTEM 32/Isass.exe' terminated unexpectedly with status code
-1073741819. The system will now shut down and restart.

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> In news:693D91E4-B1FB-4CD8-9FD3-60619794BA35@microsoft.com,
> many-idaho <many-idaho@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
>
> > Everytime I try to connect to the internet I get this message:
> This
> > system is shutting down. Please save all work and log off...
> This
> > shut down was initiated by NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM.
> > Any help out there?!!
>
>
> You have one of the recent highly-publicized worms, probably
> either Sasser or Blaster. You got this by running without a
> firewall and not keeping up with the latest Windows Critical
> updates from Microsoft.
>
> To find out which worm you have and get help in getting rid of
> it, please post back with the *complete* text of the message you
> received.
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
>

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