Tough Love Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 okay....ill give you all a run down of the course of events that have lead up to the point where i am now. Last night I was working on something in Photoshop, and as I go to save, this message box pops up, saying something to the likes of "please save your work, this is a NT AUTHORIZED system shutdown, your computer will shut down in " and there was a count down. And sure enough, it shut down and restarted. this happened two times last night. During the second time, i tried running a virus scan as the pop up was counting down, but it said "norton antivirus is corrupt, please reinstall". after the second shut down, everything was running decent, and no more message boxes popped up. the only thing i noticed was that after a while of using the computer, at least while it was connected to the net, i could not seem to open anything unless i went to "start>programs etc".....like for example, id click my desktop short cuts, and there would just be that timer thing for a mouse, and a little while after it would stop and nothing would open. today, im having that same problem mentioned above. After a while of using the computer, i can't open anything anymore. right now i can, but say after an hour or so, nothing will open from my desktop. some things do open from using start and whatever, but i cant open internet explorer. i cant even right click on my desktop and get the properties drop down dealy. now i dont have any clue whats going on. the night the system shutdown counter box came up,i was able to run a virus scan after thigns settled down and it ran fine. there was no viruses detected. the day before yesterday everything was working fine. even yesterday morning and afternoon, things were fine. the only other thing that may have fucked my computer over is that there was a power outage yesterday, but my comp was turned off during it, so i dont know how that couldve done anything,.... anyways, any sort of help would be greatly appreiciated...sorry its so wordy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tough Love Posted May 27, 2005 Author Share Posted May 27, 2005 thats the box that i just got again right now...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 that screen shot reminds me of the blaster virus or whatever it was called, i'll look for the fix on the microsoft site and an online virus scan what os do you have? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/ac...ef=EN-PR-AS-107 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_habiT Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 Yeah you totally got nailed by a virus. And the reason: most likely because you didn't have your OS as up to date as possible. Once you get things straightened out use windowsupdate regularly... it will save you headache's like these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tough Love Posted May 28, 2005 Author Share Posted May 28, 2005 hmmm yeah, i dont know. im not a huge computer person....my dad deals with these things, and hes not that good at it either. things seem to be working fine for what its worth. hopefully ill fix it somehow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 It's the blaster virus. I had the same thing previously. It sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sneak Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 Originally posted by Tough Love@May 27 2005, 09:49 PM thats the box that i just got again right now...... Quoted post last summer i saw this so much i went crazy. anytime i saw a countdown anywhere i wanted to punch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casekonly Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 haha. sorry. i had it once. once. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcen...moval.tool.html there ya go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nozaki Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 it's the MS blaster worm, not a virus. you need to dl a patch for it. the patch is available on microsoft.com. if you don't have enough time to dl the patch before that error comes up, then make a cd rom of the patch on a friends comp and then dl it from the cd. that shit is old news though...you should upgrade your firewall, or start using a router or something. or just buy a mac, haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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