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RE: virus restarting machines

Subject: RE: virus restarting machines
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:49:23 -0500
I thought Windows Update was a feature to make sure your PC / Server was
rebooted at the exact time it thought you should take a break from the
critical project you were working on.  ;-) 

-----Original Message-----
From: ViersOnline [mailto:viers@free.fr] 
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:03 PM
To: adrian_smith@live.com
Cc: incidents@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: virus restarting machines

the one I know, having such a gross behavior is called windows update :)

adrian_smith@live.com wrote:
anyone has ever experienced this kind of problem, probably due to 
virus/spyware, causing server and pc to reboot ( wondows2003)... i 
post the message i've found in log:"The process GL_<random_number>.exe

has initiated the restart of computer SERVER on behalf of user NT 
AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: No title for this reason 
could be foundReason Code: 0x0Shutdown Type: restart" thx


  

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