Windows xp shutdown

[Nicholas Sargent]

Hello anyone who can help. When I attempt to shut down
Windows XP I get a pop-up with the following title:
"End Program wupdater.exe"
It also has the following prompt beneath it:
"If you choose to end the program immediately, you will
lose any unsaved data. To end the program now, click End
Now."
I realise this is an executable file which affects the
shutdown process for Windows XP but cannot understand why
it has appeared and how to prevent this pop-up occurring
every time I shut down. Only when I select "End Now"
will Windows shut down.
CAN ANYONE HELP PLEASE?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try these programs to check for any spyware that may be on your
system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://forum.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp

 

[Alex Nichol]

Hello anyone who can help. When I attempt to shut down
Windows XP I get a pop-up with the following title:
"End Program wupdater.exe"
It also has the following prompt beneath it:
"If you choose to end the program immediately, you will
lose any unsaved data. To end the program now, click End
Now."

In addition to Will's comment, and before rebooting after running those
programs do a Start - Run - and run regedit.exe

Open to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT
\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Look in the right page for a line named Userinit
The Data should be
C:\Windows\system32\userinit.exe

If it is not, and especially if it is wpaupdater.exe, double click the
UserInit and correct it
(adjust C:\Windows if your 'windows' folder is different)