Computer/network Prb Help Please! Options

[Goopster24]

hi there thanx to anyone who is trying to help me. whenever im using my comp, in a couple of minutes it will come up with this countdown that says the computer will shut down it says NT AUTHORITY SYSTEM and something about the REMOTE PROCEDURE CALL terminating. its interesting cause i have two other computers on the network and both of them have the same prb. can someone help me please? thanx a lot!!

[Syrus]

Looks as if something's making svchost.exe crash.. dunno what exactly though, I've only had it happen once or twice, and I killed the process because it was eating up the CPU (about to crash by the looks of it).

Maybe someone else will be of use.

[jaysoccer7c]

maybe someone infected ur puter and is using the cmd action shutdown
test it on ur self and see if its the same thing type shutdown -i in cmd then fill stuff in

[DJLotus]

are you running xp? if so it may need to be activated. cuz if it aint activated, it wont run. you have so many days to activate it and if you dont then things lkike that happen

[Dagoth]

Sounds like another Blaster variant.

D/L a standalone scanner

network associates do a good one:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

[mikeuk2004]

Goopster24

Hi, it def sounds like a variant of MS/blaster. I had a new variant last week.

First thing is to activate your firewall in xp if not done already. If you have firewall software then use that, I use Zone alarm Pro 4 from zonelabs. If you dont have any firewall software you can use winxp's. activate this by clicking network neighbourhood. Click on view network connections, right click on your internet connection and select properties. you then click on the last tab and in there, there should be a tick box for activating your firewall. Click it.

ok now click on this link which will download a scanner from symantec to search for the worm.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/FixBlast.exe

This is the removal tool not the protection. you then get a link from this tool when its finished to MSs website. From here you need to install the latest MS security update which will stop it happening again with help of your firewall. Never surf or connect to the internet without a firewall on!!!!!

have fun and hope it helps.