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System restarts!!!

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/system-restarts.37886/

prankie
prankie Original post #1
Oct 3, 2006 at 10:16 PM
I have a sempron 2500+ OC'ed to 1.53Ghz, with 512 MB RAM and is running on Windows XP pro (Genuine)..
Recently my system started giving problem.. it restarts every now and then..
i scanned my pc and found "Trojan house Backdoor.Agent.atu" on c:\windows\svchost.exe
i removed it.. but still the prob prevails..
plus aftr removing this virus, when ever i disconnect and reconnect my bb connection, system fails to connect to the internet.. so i had to restart the system to reconnect!!
I am using zonealarm pro firewall and AVG Pro antivirus.
R
return_of_vengeance #2
Oct 3, 2006 at 11:17 PM
hey i had a somewat similar kind of problem , & later i came to know that Zone ALarm was the culprit, so try disabling it...
anandk
anandk #3
Oct 4, 2006 at 9:45 PM
the legit ms svchost is situated in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SVCHOST.EXE

a malware can b named anything. posbly ur svchost was a trojan. i DONT THINK za could b d culprit, btw; nevertheless do disable za and c if it helps. some more info from u or ur hijackthis logfile could b of help...so do post it here.