Computer reboots

[Womble]

Hi, had a call from a friend who's PC reboots everytime he goes to open IE. I think its netsky, but would appreciate any input before I go around on Tuesday night

When are these people going to learn, and install anti-virus software!!

Thanks in-advance

[Steve H]

What OS is he running & what version of IE? Any other adverse problems with the system?

[paulyoung666]

is it just when he opens i.e. ?????????? , or does it happen any other time ?????????? :)

[Womble]

Dont know which OS, can't get hold of him. It only happens when he opens IE, which is set up to connect via dial-up as it opens. A little box pops up that states "you have 59 secs to reboot"

[paulyoung666]

sounds like a trojan , i wonder if he is running xp :Yikes:

[paulyoung666]

sounds like a trojan , i wonder if he is running xp :Yikes:

i wonder if he has a firewall as well :)

[Steve H]

Sounds like MSBlast, must be XP or 2k.

You need to get the blast fix from the M$ website, burn it to CD, and get him to run it when he's disconnected to the net. I presume he's got Dial up then?

Link to the download;

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e70a0d8b-fe98-493f-ad76-bf673a38b4cf&DisplayLang=en

[Womble]

Thanks for your input chaps, I'll let you know the out come laterz

[TheBlueRaja]

Disable the Messenger service in the mean time this will stop reboots.

This has nothing to do with Windows or MSN messenger.

Go Start -> Run then type services.msc - look for messenger and disable it.

If it starts to shutdown - goto Start -> run and type shutdown -a