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Is this a virus or what?
LockedCan anyone PLEASE tell me what this is?
I started getting the following message a couple of days ago:
“This system is shutting down. Please save all work in progress and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was initiated by NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Time before shutdown: 00:00:XX
Message
The system process
‘C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe’ terminated unexpectedly with status code – 1073741819. The system will now shut down and restart.”The computer shuts down and reboots about every 10 to 15 minutes, regardless of what I’m doing (even if the system is just sitting idle).
NO new programs or services were recently installed!
I ran 3 different virus scans on-line, scanned in safe-mode AND real mode with McAfee, Norton, AntiVir and Avast. ALL came up clean.
Ran detect and removal tool for W32.Blaster worm — came up clean.
Ran detect and removal tool for W32.Sasser worm — came up clean.
Ran detect and removal tool for W32.Blackmal.E worm — came up clean.
Scanned with AdAware — came up clean.
Scanned with EWIDO — came up clean.
Scanned with Trend Micro (formerly SpySubtract) — came up clean
The problem still persists.
Any advice (short of “reinstall Windows XP”) would be greatly appreciated.
System info:
HP Pavilion 700
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 1.39GHz
512 MB RAM
Windows XP Home Edition SP2 (set on automatic update)
System Restore turned OFF
Cable modem (Windows XP Firewall enabled!)
Home Network on Linksys Router (BEFSR41 V.2)