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CAsee - 08 May 2004 21:26 GMT

When I start it, it shuts down aafter about 1 minute-I
have to keep restarting and restarting it. Finally, it
works after about 10 minutes of this nonsense. I talked to
the guy in the sassa worm chat and he said it wasn't that,
so what is going on?

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Bill Starbuck - 09 May 2004 14:42 GMT

Firstly, is your antivirus software up-to-date and have you run it?

Secondly, make backups of any files you cannot afford to lose --
financial records, letters, reports, spreadsheets, etc.

If you are certain no virus is involved, then you are probably dealing
with defective hardware. What you describe, suggests that the computer
fails when the hardware is cool and it works OK when the hardware is
warm. So leave the computer turned on 24/7. If this eliminates the
problem, you'll have confirmation that the problems are caused by
defective hardware.

Bill Starbuck (MVP)

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Yuriy Shkolnikov [MSFT] - 13 May 2004 00:28 GMT

I would suspect Blaster
Check this out
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp
Regards,
Yuriy

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> When I start it, it shuts down aafter about 1 minute-I
> have to keep restarting and restarting it. Finally, it
> works after about 10 minutes of this nonsense. I talked to
> the guy in the sassa worm chat and he said it wasn't that,
> so what is going on?

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