PC Keeps Restarting!

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Sounds like the Sasser virus. Is your Norton up to date?

Click here:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data...

Bill Crocker



"Pink Sparkle Girl" <mydeadbaby@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ukmPylFsEHA.2776@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> My PC keeps restarting! It mainly does it when I turn it on for the first
> time each day. It restarts about twice while booting up, then maybe
> another
> 2 or 3 times during the next half hour (with more restarting while
> rebooting). It has done it for the last 2 weeks or so since the weather
> has
> been getting colder.
>
> It has always had a few problems since it was built (1 1/2 years ago) if
> turned off for any length of time, but up until recently had settled down.
>
> I have run several virus scans with Norton (making sure they are up to
> date), but found nothing. I can't update to SP2 because it causes XP to
> pause for a second or two constantly, so had to remove it (another
> irritating problem - it loaded fine, just didn't work properly and I tried
> it twice).
>
> I recently had 3 emails sent to me with a virus in (can't remember the
> name)
> which Norton had trouble with. It deleted 2 of 3 files, but I had to
> delete
> a file left in the temp folder and the emails themselves. No remains were
> found afterwards. I deactivated System Restore as indicated by Norton, did
> a
> full scan and found nothing, then reactivated System Restore (this is the
> point that the problems occurred so I can't go back to a previous state
> when
> the problem didn't exist as it erased them all when deactivated).
>
> Any advice would be gratefully received as I want to sort this out!
>
> Thanks,
> Sarah
>
> (I emailed Microsoft with the problem I have with SP2 (the pausing) and
> their advice was to install SP2! Crazy - do they not actually read the
> emails!?)
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain (More info?)

I have a similar problem. My PC keeps shutting down and restarting obver
and over. Once its up and before i can click on any icon it says "system
shutting down. RPC (remote porcedure call service terminated
unexpectedely" Any idea how I can stop this from happening. Pink Sparkle Girl Wrote:
> My PC keeps restarting! It mainly does it when I turn it on for the
> first
> time each day. It restarts about twice while booting up, then maybe
> another
> 2 or 3 times during the next half hour (with more restarting while
> rebooting). It has done it for the last 2 weeks or so since the weather
> has
> been getting colder.
>
> It has always had a few problems since it was built (1 1/2 years ago)
> if
> turned off for any length of time, but up until recently had settled
> down.
>
> I have run several virus scans with Norton (making sure they are up to
> date), but found nothing. I can't update to SP2 because it causes XP
> to
> pause for a second or two constantly, so had to remove it (another
> irritating problem - it loaded fine, just didn't work properly and I
> tried
> it twice).
>
> I recently had 3 emails sent to me with a virus in (can't remember the
> name)
> which Norton had trouble with. It deleted 2 of 3 files, but I had to
> delete
> a file left in the temp folder and the emails themselves. No remains
> were
> found afterwards. I deactivated System Restore as indicated by Norton,
> did a
> full scan and found nothing, then reactivated System Restore (this is
> the
> point that the problems occurred so I can't go back to a previous state
> when
> the problem didn't exist as it erased them all when deactivated).
>
> Any advice would be gratefully received as I want to sort this out!
>
> Thanks,
> Sarah
>
> (I emailed Microsoft with the problem I have with SP2 (the pausing)
> and
> their advice was to install SP2! Crazy - do they not actually read the
> emails!?)


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sunil dhingra