Re: NT Authority System Shutdown

From: Curtis Koenig [MSFT] (curtisko_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/23/03


Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 01:12:52 GMT

You might also be infected by a virus this is a symptom simiar to the
blaster virus. If you machines are not on the latest patches and you have
not updated your virus software recently this is a good possiblity.

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Curtis Koenig
Support Engineer
Product Support Services, Security Team
MCSE, MCSES, CISSP
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>From: "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: NT Authority System Shutdown
>
>You could try shutdown -a at the command prompt.  --- Steve
>
>"Rey-Tech" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>news:007901c3c8be$464eb2d0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> I've recently got this error message on my Windows 2000
>> PC, "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 the fix but in order to run it you have to have
>> access to the desktop.  The PC keeps rebooting before
>> Win2k can bring it up even in safe mode.
>>
>> Is there anyway I can stop the reboot from occuring? I
>> have access to Safe Mode with Command Prompt, can I do
>> anything there?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>
>


Relevant Pages

  • Msconfig
    ... Manager and look into running processes it's there as if it's runnning ... definitely not a virus, spyware, trojan, or worm. ... Now if I boot into Safe Mode and run it, ... unchecking something and rebooting to see if the System notified me ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: system shut down
    ... You might have the sasser virus or the blaster virus ... To stop shutdown, click Start, click Run and type: ... It doesn’t remove the worm. ... You can then connect to the Internet and download the Microsoft relevant patch. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsupdate)
  • Re: Win2k Keeps Rebooting even in Safe Mode
    ... Try shutdown -a at the command prompt. ... I found the fix for deleting the virus, ... > can't initiate it because the system keep rebooting. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.security)
  • Re: Computer shutting down
    ... You might have the Sasser Virus or the Blaster Virus ... To stop shutdown, click Start, click Run and type: ... It doesn’t remove the worm. ... You can then connect to the Internet and download the Microsoft relevant patch. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: Cant delete a file
    ... Run a virus scan with up to date definitions. ... tried safe mode, tried rebooting and then deleting it right away in safe mode ... I tried rebooting and then deleting it right away but that didn't work. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)