Damn virus...?

[apemanttt]

I had the blaster virus when it first came up and would get the dialog box saying my computer was going to shut down in 30 secs, but I got rid of that right after I first got it.

Now my computer is restarting again whenever I turn it on. Sometimes it restarts at the login screen, sometimes 30 seconds later, and sometimes 20 minutes later. When I go into the task manager and view the running processors there is no msblast running. I even end almost every process I can and my computer still restarts.

Do I have faulty hardware? I tried doing a virus check but my computer always restarts before I find out if I have any viruses.

Now that I'm righting this I'm wondering if some of my hardware is going... Or has there been a more recent virus that restarts your computer? This happens even when I'm not connected and I do use a router so it can't be a trojan.

Thanks for your help.

 

[AkumaBao]

Is it still showing a dialog box when it shutsdown, or is it shutting down without warning?

 

[apemanttt]

No warning when it shuts down.

I put some new RAM in my computer a month or two ago but I didn't notice the restarting problem until a week or two ago. I remember a week or so ago it would restart but not nearly as often.

 

[redbeard1]

Some of the sasser viruses and mydoom will cause shut downs like that. Download Stinger on another computer, put it on a floppy and run it in safe mode. Or if your computer will stay up long enough, download it and then reboot into safe mode. If your anti virus is up to date, it may be able to do a scan in safe mode also.

Stinger

 

[dawks]

Originally posted by: redbeard1
Some of the sasser viruses and mydoom will cause shut downs like that. Download Stinger on another computer, put it on a floppy and run it in safe mode. Or if your computer will stay up long enough, download it and then reboot into safe mode. If your anti virus is up to date, it may be able to do a scan in safe mode also.

Stinger

Also try getting a firewall up ASAP.