Forced restart upon Internet connection

[danbe]

Hello, my friend gave me his used computer with W7 32bit and it came with this problem, I don't know what he was messing with. After and only after plugging in the ethernet for internet, in Normal mode, about 1-5 minutes later I get an error window with the message "Windows has encountered a critical error and will now restart in one minute" and the heading "You are about to be logged off". At that point no matter what I do the computer will restart in about a minute. I am posting this in safe mode where it works fine.

Another weird thing, I think it's related, but without internet Avira antivirus and Windows Firewall will be on and work fine. After plugging in internet, they both turn off. Once I had Avira open while connecting to the internet, and Avira's firewall status indicator turned off right in front of me. When I tried to turn it back on I got a new window with the message "The service cannot accept control messages at this time." and with a heading that was a filepath leading to ccuac.exe.

I did the rounds with Broni in the virus and malware forum, he said I do not have any malware.
https://www.techspot.com/community/...ection-you-are-about-to-be-logged-off.200822/

So I hope my extensive details will help someone help me here. Thank you for reading.

 

[Cobalt006]

Your best bet would to be. To download Avira uninstaller and remove the virus program. See if this solves your problem. If so. Then reinstall a different antivirus program. If this problem continues . You may need to look at reinstalling windows. It is very hard to say what has happen to the os. Without knowing when and how the problem started.

 

[DelJo63]

"Windows has encountered a critical error and will now restart in one minute"

Use the Event Viewer to find which program caused this error (some system service crashed).

 

[Tmagic650]

Remove Avira completely. Re-enable Windows firewall by installing MSE:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download
Pay attention to the check box enabling Windows firewall and see if this computer stabilizes

 

[danbe]

I uninstalled Avira and installed MSE. I thought that fixed the problem but it only made it take longer before getting the error. I noticed this time after getting the error, I couldn't open CCleaner or Event Viewer. Problably not anything else either, those were the only two I tried. Instead of opening I got "The endpoint mapper database entry could not be created."

I now have event viewer open ready to spot an event. But it's been a long while so far with no interruptions. Normally the error would have occurred 5 minutes after connecting to the internet.

 

[danbe]

Okay it happened again and here are some shots of the event viewer afterwards.

 

[danbe]

 

[danbe]

To see up close you'll have to right click, view image, left click on the image, then view raw image.

The error should have happened around 5:52 so I believe the proper events are at the top of the second image. I was only able to screenshot those two folders before it restarted. Can someone please advise? Is Wininit the problem? Should I do it again and screenshot a certain folder?

 

[danbe]

Bump can anyone provide some insight please?

 

[Cobalt006]

Look as though windows may have a lot of corrupt system files. You may want to run a repair if possible. If not you may want to do a factory reinstall of your OS.

 

[danbe]

Thank you for your help everyone. Sorry for the late reply. I installed linux on the second hdd to have something that works but I screwed up the other one because I guess there was some kind of RAID config between the two. So I just said screw it and installed linux over everything. Problem solved haha