System automatically shuts down every 10 minutes

[Chee Yap]

My Windows 2000 Pro system suddenly developed this habit
of shutting down and restarting every 10 minutes or so.

Installing Service Pack 4 did not help.

The message says:
======================
The system is shutting down. Please save all work in
progress and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost.
This shutdown was initiated by NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

The system process C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\SERVICES.EXE
terminated unexpectedly with status code 128. The system
will shut down and restart.
=======================

I found a website saying that if I fix the regedit
entry for shared objects, it would help, but my regedit
shows no such objects.

Can anyone suggest a fix?

Thanks in advance,
--Chee Yap
email: yap at cs.nyu.edu

 

[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

--

Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Ray at]

Uh, do you keep your computer up to date with critical updates and what not?
Do you remember hearing about the Blaster worm, like three months ago? It
was all over the TV, radio, and other types of media...
www.windowsupdate.com

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

 

[paul Dietrich]

Several possibilities to investigate:

1) Virus or other malicious program or person
2) Scheduled tasks and/or background services
3) corrupted system files
4) Hardware

5) A combination of #2 and #3 could be a possibility too.

Each of these need to be looked in to. See if you can eliminate one or
more possibilities. And post any add'l info you may have regarding this.