computer restarting after loading

[defcon3]

hey everyone... back again yet with another problem my computer seems to restart itself whenever i boot in normal mode after the welcome screen and everything loads up the computer just reboots without any warning.... i did say 1 time an error something about winlogin.exe but it went away too fast to be able to read it i will go into safe mode and get a hjt log asap

[Harudath]

Have you disabled passwords for this PC with the userpasswords2 feature?

[defcon3]

no no passwords were disabled... i think winlogin.exe might be a virus because i thought that what was used for the system with passwords was winlogon.exe not winlogin.exe

[Thrax]

Winlogon is the correct executable. Winlogin is not, as you pointed out.

Can you access safe mode?

[Harudath]

Ah, I was thinking of something else :tongue: something like that happened with me but userpasswords2 went wrong. I couldn't log on and I got stuck at the "Welcome" screen. Each time it rebooted a text box flashed up for less than half a second then vanished. Took me a while to figure out I had to click EVERYWHERE til I came across the "yes" box to log in :rolleyes:

I demand an achievement for being unlucky! :tongue:

[defcon3]

yea i am currently in safe mode with networking

i have done numerous virus scans spyware scans and nothing is ever found that leads to any conclusions...

[defcon3]

alright no progress so far... now it gives me a blue screen of death right after i get passed the loading screen

and this is the error it says

stop
c000021a fatal system error
the windows logon process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of
0xc0000005
(0x00000000) (the system has been shut down)



any thoughts?

[Thrax]

Typically that is an indicator of the vundo trojan/spyware.

[Leonardo]

I am moving this thread Spyware & Virus Removal thread. If it turns out it's a hardware or Windows problem, we can move it back.