Is this caused by a virus?

Soldato
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This has happened twice on my laptop now. Any ideas why?

First I got this.
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Then this happened! :(
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I don't get this kind of trouble with vista!:rolleyes:
 
yeah blaster or sasser virus looks like

windows update tbh

in the run box type in


shutdown -a

press enter, will stop it shutting down
 
Usual stuff - AV scan in safe mode (with respectable AV software) - if that's clean,
chkdsk c: /f (to make sure that the FS isn't corrupt)
sfc /scannow (to make sure the OS isn't corrupt)
 
Out of interest, what does avg pick this up as? I saw something very similar on a pc yesterday, i thought i'd cleared it but avg keeps picking up a NTrootkit.ac on the file Mfo54.sys.

Wont let me heal it or vault it, only happens at startup.
 
what do you mean vault it?

disable system restore, remove the av tool you use now, install nod32/kaspersky, update and scan
 
Avg was installed, i did try the trend online virus scanner and that didnt pick anything up.

I'll install another anti virus and give that a go
 
If it is a rootkit like the name suggests, then it will have replaced core system files in order to hide other viruses from the operating system's APIs. Furthermore, if it has changed a system file, he likely can't clean it or "vault it" (I assume that is a quarantine), because the OS is protecting it. Rootkit, instant grounds for a format IMO :P.
 
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