Armando left a note on my windscreen which said:
Shortly after satrting up my system it will shutdown by
itself. Is it a known bug or would reinstalling the system
all over again fix it? The only way to make it work is on
Safe Mode
MS Blast worm
From;
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michaelgadge/shutdownproblem.htm
TO CANCEL THE SHUTDOWN GO TO START -> RUN -> TYPE CMD TO ACCESS CMD
PROMPT AND TYPE (SHUTDOWN -A) TO CANCEL IT.
DO CTRL+ALT+DELETE AND KILL MSBLAST.EXE FROM THE PROCESSES LIST
GO TO C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 AND FIND MSBLAST.EXE AND RENAME IT TO
BLASTMS.BAK (DON'T DELETE IT SINCE I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS AN IMPORTANT
FILE, IF ITS A VIRUS IT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO START IF U RENAME IT,
RENDERING IT USELESS.)
NOW GO TO C:\WINDOWS\PREFETCH AND DELETE THE FILE THAT HAS MSBLAST.EXE
IN ITS NAME.
(IT STARTS WITH MSBLAST.EXE IN ITS FILENAME)
THE VIRUS ADDS A REGISTRY VALUE TO AUTO LOAD WHEN WINDOWS STARTS UP, YOU
MUST DELETE THE REGISTRY KEY.
1. Click Start, and then click Run. (The Run dialog box appears.)
2. Type regedit
3. Then click OK. (The Registry Editor opens.)
4. Navigate to the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
5. In the right pane, delete the value:
"windows auto update"="msblast.exe"
6. Exit the Registry Editor.
INSTALL THE PATCH FOR YOUR SYSTEM FROM THE LINKS BELOW
NON SP1 USERS =
http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2354406C-C5B6-44AC-
9532-3DE40F69C074&displaylang=en
SP1 USERS =
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/8205.html