Auto restart

[Dave]

I have windows xp home edition: I keep getting a message
box that tells me something about NTAUTHORTY and it gives
me a minute to restart or it does it automatically. what
is this and how do i stop it?. last time i had this i had
to re-install XP.

 

[Claire]

I have windows xp home edition: I keep getting a message
box that tells me something about NTAUTHORTY and it gives
me a minute to restart or it does it automatically. what
is this and how do i stop it?. last time i had this i had
to re-install XP.

Hi Dave,
blaster virus

 

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

It appears your computer has been infected with the Blaster virus. For more
information and how to fix this please see these links:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...8b-fe98-493f-ad76-bf673a38b4cf&displaylang=en

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=826955

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/main.asp
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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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