Hi, If I boot up my PC, run for say 10 mins and shut down, it will shut down in about 20 seconds. If however it runs for an hour then from when I hit shutdown to the windows screen that says shutdown / restart / etc takes 3 mins and then if I confirm shutdown it takes another 3 mins. Any ideas?

Regards

likely some program has a connection to the Internet and it is Stalled
attempting to close it. There's a program to monitor ALL open connections;
see http://www.nirsoft.net and look for CurrPorts.
(url has been corrected)

The object here is to understand which programs are accessing the Internet,
and to control IF/when they should even be here (ie: backdoors )

Jobeard, Thanks for the reply but that web site you left has "Site under construction" on it. Do you know of another way of finding what ports are running. I am sure you are right because my broadband always seems to be flashing away.

Try UPHCLEAN from M$
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
Works great on W2K, also works on XP and W2K3

Hi, I found currport and I have loads of things running from my machine. How do I know which one's are ok?

We're working under the assumption that your ISP access is properly
configured and you have NO outstanding issues for access, like
Access Timed Out, Site Not Found. If you've seen anything like this lately,
get your TCP config fixed first.

You need to understand what you've installed and where.
The attached pdf shows some active programs; notice the Process Path.
you should understand each of these and respond, 'AH, I remember'.

Anything that originates from \Temp or \Windows\Temp is a suspect trojan,
so verify that it was downloaded as an ActiveX component or something
you just wanted to try out.

<ctl><alt><del> will get you to the task manager and ANY program
that is shown as Not Responding is a zombe and will not behave correctly
at shutdown.

They all seem to come from windows/system32/svchost or AOL so I am guessing thats ok then.

I had that problem is was a virus

http://securityresponse.symantec.com...oval.tool.html

should remove it if it is the same virus.

Thanks Puncrawcboi92 but it found no worm so it can not be that. I'm still battling along here so if anyone else has any ideas please get typing.

Regards

did you jut used the worm cleaner i showed you? that one only removes one worm.

if you only used the tool i gave you then run this scanner

http://www.pandasoftware.com/product..._principal.htm

Puncrawcboi92, That's that scan alos turned up no viruses etc. Any othere thoughts?

Regards

I must stay off the juice if I am going to post. Let me try that again.

Puncrawcboi92. I have run that scan and it also reports no viruses etc, any other ideas?

Regards

press start
then go into control panel
switch to classic view
go into administrative tools
event viewer
and look at your application and system
post the warnings and errors

Puncrawcboi92, I copied some of the application log and system log and took out the most recent errors and warnings.

ok From the application log I :-

Error 29/08/2005 21:37:33 ESENT Logging/Recovery 454 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 21:37:33 ESENT Logging/Recovery 494 N/A ASUS

Error 29/08/2005 21:37:32 ESENT Logging/Recovery 454 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 21:37:32 ESENT Logging/Recovery 494 N/A ASUS

Error 29/08/2005 21:37:32 ESENT Logging/Recovery 454 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 21:37:32 ESENT Logging/Recovery 494 N/A ASUS

Error 29/08/2005 21:37:31 ESENT Logging/Recovery 454 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 21:37:31 ESENT Logging/Recovery 494 N/A ASUS

Information 29/08/2005 21:37:31 ESENT General 101 N/A ASUSError 29/08/2005 21:37:31 ESENT Logging/Recovery 454 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 21:37:31 ESENT Logging/Recovery 494 N/A ASUS

Error 29/08/2005 21:37:30 ESENT Logging/Recovery 454 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 21:37:30 ESENT Logging/Recovery 494 N/A ASUS

Error 29/08/2005 21:07:30 ESENT Logging/Recovery 454 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 21:07:30 ESENT Logging/Recovery 494 N/A ASUS

Error 29/08/2005 21:07:29 ESENT Logging/Recovery 454 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 21:07:29 ESENT Logging/Recovery 494 N/A ASUS

Error 29/08/2005 21:07:29 ESENT Logging/Recovery 454 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 21:07:29 ESENT Logging/Recovery 494 N/A ASUS

Error 29/08/2005 21:07:28 ESENT Logging/Recovery 454 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 21:07:28 ESENT Logging/Recovery 494 N/A ASUS

Error 29/08/2005 21:07:28 ESENT Logging/Recovery 454 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 21:07:28 ESENT Logging/Recovery 494 N/A ASUS

Error 29/08/2005 21:07:27 ESENT Logging/Recovery 454 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 21:07:27 ESENT Logging/Recovery 494 N/A ASUS

Error 29/08/2005 20:37:27 ESENT Logging/Recovery 454 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 20:37:27 ESENT Logging/Recovery 494 N/A ASUS

From the system log I have :

Type Date Time Source Category Event User Computer

Information 29/08/2005 11:06:40 Service Control Manager None 7035 SYSTEM ASUS
Warning 29/08/2005 11:05:57 Dhcp None 1007 N/A ASUS

Error 29/08/2005 11:04:15 acpi None 4 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 11:04:15 acpi None 5 N/A ASUS
26 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 11:02:11 acpi None 4 N/A ASUS
Error 29/08/2005 11:02:11 acpi None 5 N/A ASUS

Error 28/08/2005 21:47:22 DCOM None 10010 SYSTEM ASUS
Error 28/08/2005 21:43:02 DCOM None 10010 Stephen & Janet ASUS
Warning 28/08/2005 12:10:10 Dhcp None 1007 N/A ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:09:21 Service Control Manager None 7036 N/A ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:09:14 Service Control Manager None 7036 N/A ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:09:14 Service Control Manager None 7035 SYSTEM ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:09:14 Service Control Manager None 7035 SYSTEM ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:09:14 Service Control Manager None 7036 N/A ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:09:07 Tcpip None 4201 N/A ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:09:07 Service Control Manager None 7036 N/A ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:09:07 Service Control Manager None 7036 N/A ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:09:06 Service Control Manager None 7035 SYSTEM ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:09:05 Service Control Manager None 7036 N/A ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:09:05 Service Control Manager None 7035 SYSTEM ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:09:04 Service Control Manager None 7036 N/A ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:08:48 Application Popup None 26 N/A ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:08:48 Application Popup None 26 N/A ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:08:48 Application Popup None 26 N/A ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:08:48 Application Popup None 26 N/A ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:08:48 Application Popup None 26 N/A ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:08:48 Application Popup None 26 N/A ASUS
Error 28/08/2005 12:08:32 acpi None 4 N/A ASUS
Error 28/08/2005 12:08:32 acpi None 5 N/A ASUS
Error 28/08/2005 12:07:39 DCOM None 10010 SYSTEM ASUS
Error 28/08/2005 12:05:06 DCOM None 10010 Stephen & Janet ASUS
Information 28/08/2005 12:03:03 RemoteAccess None 20159 N/A ASUS
Warning 28/08/2005 08:37:27 Dhcp None 1007 N/A ASUS
27/08/2005 21:43:59 eventlog None 6006 N/A ASUS
Error 27/08/2005 21:43:58 DCOM None 10010 SYSTEM ASUS

Does this mean anything to you. There are loads more I just took the first few of each.