computer keeps giving me 1 minute before restart!

[rahgcxsd-6]

i keep getting that message:

services.exe was terminated and blahblahblah

you have 1 min to save eveything and logoff.

you were pwned by microsoft! (ok, it doesn't say that, but it should)

no viruses detected.

no apparent possesion by evil demons.

firewall = on

windows XP sp2.

 

[Shamrock]

I had that bug (I think). I just deleted the file that was causing it because it was not installed properly.

 

[lePobz]

It could be one of a long list of viruses causing this, or it could just be a corrupted installer of something. Try a system restore, a full system virus scan, and if all else fails, format.

 

[furiousV]

there is a way to disable the 1 minute before restart, but should only be done as you locate the source of the problem.
make sure all your virus scanner definition are bang up to date, as well as ad-aware, and use several ad-ware scanners. www.majorgeek.com will give u a list of a few.
www.backviper.com gave information on disabling system restart, and il try and find the link, or see if i can do it myself.

 

[Garfield_]

Its defenently a virus :O

 

[G-Dub]

Sounds like sasser

 

[Garfield_]

I had this thing but i think it was 30 sec till restart

 

[duffers20]

how starting the pc in safemode, does it do it then, if it doesn't then I would disable the restart setting mentioned by furiousV.

 

[Ti133700N]

When it says you only have 1 minute etc., change the time of your clock to something like 3 days before, you'll get plenty of time to go find a patch and do a virus check etc...

 

[oni_666]

Sounds like the blaster worm to me, so download the fix from here

blaster fix

It may work through windows, or you may need to go into safe mode to run it.

Before windows reboots after you get the message, open up task manager (ctrl-alt-del) or right click on your tool bar, then shutdown the processes marked "services", "csrss" & "lsass".

These 3 processes are usually the ones infected by the blaster worm.

Turn off system restore, run clean up and delete every restore point before you became infected.

After you have done this, right click on my computer, select properties, to open system properties, click on advanced, then goto startup and recovery, settings, uncheck the box next to "automatically restart".

This will stop windows rebooting upon a system failure episode.

Then update your anti virus, virus scan your whole HD...virus scan everything you download, and get yourself a decent firewall, like Zonealarm.

Then turn restore back on, if you don't delete your old restore points, then you may restore in the future and bring back the virus too.

 

[rahgcxsd-6]

thanks people, i realized that my vaccine was not up to date.

updated then scanned = virus found = fixed!

thanks.