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computer restarting after loading

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edited February 2008 in Spyware & Virus Removal
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

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  • HarudathHarudath Great Britain Icrontian
    edited February 2008
    Have you disabled passwords for this PC with the userpasswords2 feature?
  • defcon3
    edited February 2008
    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
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2008
    Winlogon is the correct executable. Winlogin is not, as you pointed out.

    Can you access safe mode?
  • HarudathHarudath Great Britain Icrontian
    edited February 2008
    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
    edited February 2008
    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
    edited February 2008
    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?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2008
    Typically that is an indicator of the vundo trojan/spyware.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited February 2008
    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.
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