NT AUTHORITY shutting down my PC

Wow, thanks so much.

This message was coming up every time my computer booted up. Thank god I found this post using google! I had to bookmark it (and later, the microsoft page) so I could read through and finish in time...

Luckily, I was able to download the patch within my 60 seconds :-S I had to save it, and boot up in safe mode, to get the thing running in time, but now everything looks like it's working!

I don't know what we would have done without you! Thanks

i've been having this problem for the past few days...
but i woke up this morning to it happening more frequently...
then once i got to my computer to see if there were any fixes it would start rebooting almost as soon as windows was finished loading.
so i decided to shut it down when i got the chance, and go look on my roomates computer for help...now i cant seem to start my machine back up, its dead to the world...and perhaps its just me over reacting but i swear i smelt fried electronics when i walked back in my room to turn it on
if anyone has ideas as to how i can get my computer back up and running so i can try the update, or reformat, i would be greatful
thanls for the info so far, its helped alot...this is the only plac ei found so far thats had any info related to this problem

This is happeing to me about every 5 min and want stop i installed the patch and have my fingers crossed but i dont know i was jsut curious if this is a hacker thing and what exactlly they can do thank you

Thanks so much for the info - my girlfriend is having this problem, but as she's a 56ker, she cant download the 5.5mb patch in time.

I have broadband, i've tried sending the file by msn, but still no luck.

Any tips? I cant even compress the file with winzip. She's very upset... and poor Sin cant make it better....

unless she pays me 50p for a CD lol

Anyway i can reduce the file size?

looks like D Day for this exploit. tech forums all over the net are being bombarded with pleas for help. I have seen several links to this article posted at many places if reference to resolving the problem.

You can do this to stop the computer restarting each time and give you time to install the patch.




go to START, CONTROL PANEL,ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS,COMPONENT SERVICES

then select SERVICES (local) from the left hand window. Find "REMOTE PROCEDUE CALL (RPC)" from the right hand window, right click, porperties. From the RECOVERY tab you can then set it so windows won't reboot each time.

Thanks for posting this info guys. I also found y'all through google and this is a huge help.

does this really work? shall i get her to set it back to what it was after installing the patch?

Cheers for the help guys, had this problem start this evening and now (touch wood) seems sorted.

However, a friend of mine who was having the same problem has found something called msblast.exe in the windows/system32 directory, I have the same thing too (Win XP Pro)

Can someone let me know if this should be here please. It's around 7kb in size.

Cheers.

Yes it does work.

As for reseting it afterwards I don't know. The error still comes up that an error has occured but it doesn't force the shutdown.

I haven't bothered setting mine back to the original state.

Yes I seem to have MSBlast.exe too. I killed it from processes in task manager and denied it internet access through zonealarm.

I googled it but it finds absolutely nothing.

Yeah can't find anything about it either, not sure what to do.

defuzz are you using XP Pro or home? A friend of mine using XP home doesn't have that file.

Just wanted to post and give my thanks for all the usefull information on here.

My problem started about an hour ago. I figured out fast something was not right as the NT AUTHORITY msg was poping up about 1min after login every time, and then a 60sec timer to reboot.

Lucky me i came across this site. Some very helpfull people here. Hope everyone gets their problem fixed.

thank you all

I got my gf to change her admin settings, it DID stop the countdown, and now she is able to download the patch

Once the patch is installed, I shall probably keep her settings as are.. untill the next complaint lol.


Thank you all, this forum is a life saver

*bookmarks*

XP Pro

Hmm okay - so far 3 peeps with XP pro all have this .exe

Have a read here about MSblast

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

I run XP home edition, and I've got that MSBlast file.

Cheers for that Tob.........and damn.