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PC will shutdown like a time bomb

6 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/pc-will-shutdown-like-a-time-bomb.102683/

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linkin park Original post #1
Nov 22, 2008 at 3:58 PM
a message would pop up on my moniter .. ."Windows XP is shutting down,save your unfinished task,it will shut down in 48:00 minutes.this shut down has been initiated by the adminstrator " . ." . well i the administrator have not done anything of this sort , on the contrary its an annoyance to me.I want to get rid of it ....help me please
T
Nov 22, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Your computer is infected with some virus. Run a complete virus scan with antivirus having latest updates.
To stop this shutdown, you can enter shutdown -a in run dialog .
L
Dec 14, 2008 at 8:33 PM
thanks thinkfree .it worked
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paroh #4
Dec 15, 2008 at 7:31 AM
shutdown -a (Abort a system shutdown)
parthbarot
Dec 15, 2008 at 11:07 AM
that message mostly comes on "shutdown -t <time>" command...which happens on RPC errors in windows... so take care and check with prcView or processExplorer which process is doing stuff which u thnk can be a virus or something bad...

regards.
T
Dec 15, 2008 at 3:20 PM
^^A similar message comes on a pc infected with msblast worm, just username is changed.