When I am on the internet, my computer always seems to display a message, something like 'the system must restart authorized by windows nt/authority. How can i fix this? I dont know what else to do
| When I am on the internet, my computer always seems to display a message, something like 'the system must restart authorized by windows nt/authority. How can i fix this? I dont know what else to do
When I am on the internet, my computer always seems to display a message, something like 'the system must restart authorized by windows nt/authority. How can i fix this? I dont know what else to do
Apparently, your computer is now infected with the W32.Blaster.Worm or one of
its variants. This happened because you have not been using an internet
connection firewall and have apparently neglected to install the critical
updates available from Microsoft.
If your computer is constantly attempting to shutdown or reboot:
Start - Run, type "shutdown -a", and hit Enter.
That should halt the reboot. Now fix the problem.
And Tim, please don't contribute to the spread of email address mining viruses.
Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit safer when
posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the internet - never
post your address unmunged. http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
If you connected the PC to the Internet without having first
enabled a firewall, without having first installed an antivirus
application with current virus definition files, and before installing
the KB824146 Hotfix, you're very likely to get infected from any of
the thousands of PCs on the Internet that are constantly broadcasting
the Blaster and/or Welchia worms. It only takes a few seconds of
exposure.
To stay on-line long enough to get the necessary updates, patches,
and removal tools, click Start > Run, and enter "shutdown -a" when the
next RPC countdown begins. This will abort the shut down. Also, make
sure you've enabled a firewall before starting, to preclude any more
intrusions while getting the updates/patches/tools.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH
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