I'm getting this: ERROR: GENERIC HOST SERVICES WIN 32 System will shut down (gives 1 minute countdown and then re-boots). The system reboots and immeadeately gets the shut-down error again! I'm actually having to post in from work!
Please help me!!!!
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Forgive my ignorance of performing maintenance on Windows systems, but can't you get the computer to boot from a CD -- something like Norton Disk Doctor -- and try to fix the problem that way?
If my iBook had a problem like that, I'd just pop the CD into the tray and hold down the "C" key during the next reboot (to tell the computer to boot from the CD drive rather than the hard drive).
But I dunno if Windows has anything similar. I would hope so...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Smart man: that does indeed seeem to be the cure....if I can find the XP install disk that came with my Dell anyway. Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
You are now the 9th person I have ran into who has this problem...just today! It's a hole in XP that people are exploiting.
[ August 11, 2003, 07:53 PM: Message edited by: The359 ]
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Yay Sygate Personal Firewall!!! But I did download the patch just in case.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Holy shit 359, you're my personal savior. Thanks so much, man. Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
And that's why you should download your critical updates, folks. Hereth endeth theth lessoneth.
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
Its that damn MSBlast worm that seems to hit it big yesterday. My roomate and I boht have XP on our computers, we have dial up and my roomate computer got it almost immediately while he was on the net yesterday, whereas I was on for much longer and never got a bite. I haven't clicked on anyones above links, but the Windows Update page has the patch that should have prevented it in the first place. Did so, at least for me.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: And that's why you should download your critical updates, folks. Hereth endeth theth lessoneth.
Actually I switched from Suck-O DSL to cable modem yesterday and as soon as the DSL (bellsouth's) firewall went down I got nailed. (Barry White voice) Much love to all those that helped me fix this though.
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
Also, dunno if you are still having reboot probs.
But the simpliest way to stop it is to run:
"services.msc" --> Remote Procedure Class --> Recovery --> Restart Service
Change it to anything but "restart the computer"...
Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
And uncheck "Automatically reboot" (Control Panel ==>> System ==>> Advanced ==>> Startup and Recovery) for added insurance.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Yeah, I had to do all that via the Control panel and switch all the RTC to "Take No Action" just to have enough time between crashes to get the patch! All is well now. ....untill next time, anyway.
As a footnote, I have aquired three numbers for MS customer service that aparantly are always busy 24/7 of are only a placebo to allow real people not to have to deal with us.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
To be fair (though lord knows why), they were probably busy yesterday because lots of people were phoning up wondering why their computers kept resetting.
XP does have a built in firewall, y'know, if you haven't got a third party one. I've no idea if it's any good though.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Any Microsoft-designed firewall would probably be best equated to a kitchen colander.
It simply amazes me how worried people are getting about all these recurring security holes in Windows, and yet so many people seem to just accept it as a necessary evil...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Okay: a new issue. I searched for MSBLAST (the worm's name)and found it. Unfortunately, it won'y allow me to delete it and virus scanners don't hit it (even after I changed it's name to "virus!). It's telling me to make sure the program is not running. My XP patch is preventing the program from doing anything but I sure don't want in in my machine. Ideas?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Boot into Safe Mode and try it? Or Command Prompt Mode? Or do it from the XP startup disc?
Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
JA: download ProcessExplorer from www.sysinternals.com, use that program to kill the worm's process, then remove the read-only attribute from its executable and blast the thing in half.
All 2K folks: run this. Now.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
My towns computers all got attacked by that worm the day before, at the same time we were being given Denial of Service attacks by some punkass in Japan. Anyways, that's what my friend who works in the computer repair industry said. He and his buddy from work got the f*ckwit back so bad though.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Did they give him a wedgie and steal his lunch money?
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
They made him spend a day in Prince Albert.
BECAUSE IT IS BORING THERE!
GO RAIDERS!
LOCAL COLLOQUIALISM!
I used to live in Moose Jaw.
Goddamnit.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Which reminds me; I've never understood that "Prince Albert is in the can" thing. I know "can" is "toilet". Or at least I think it is, but the rest has left me confused and tired.
Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
It is a native thing.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Native? I thought they were all exiles from real countries...
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"Which reminds me; I've never understood that 'Prince Albert is in the can' thing. I know 'can' is 'toilet'. Or at least I think it is, but the rest has left me confused and tired."
Okay, being on the toilet is called being "in the can", but that's not what the "Prince Albert" joke referred to. Apparently, Prince Albert was a brand of tobacco (for pipes, I think?), and it was sold in cans, among other containers. So small children of little imagination would call stores and ask:
"Do you have Prince Albert in a can?" "Yes." "Then you'd better let him out! Tee-hee!"
It's like calling someone and asking if their refrigerator is running, then telling them to go catch it. It's what passed for humor in, like, the '40s or something.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Then thingie should remember it. Y'know, thingie. With the...damn.
Isn't there anyone I say is old as a running...thing? Like Simon's penis being longer than the Great Wall Of China, and Tim being fatter than Jupiter?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
The hell are you talking about? Did that stripey sweater addle your brain when you were young?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I think Liam's tried out both the "Lee is old" and the "Lee is bald" running gags, neither of which really caught the public imagination the way that Tim's girth, or indeed, Simon's girth (and length) did.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Lee is ginger too.
Posted by CaptainMike20X6 (Member # 709) on :
WAS THE SWEATER EVER PART OF A BIRD COSTUME?!?!?!
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
No, that was a boob tube with a yellow feather boa sewn on.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
For me or for you?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Well, Kate, but it was quite stretchy, it might fit you. I'll ask her if she still has it.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I'm not sure a boob tube would be overly flattering on me.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Well, suck it and see. Or better yet, post pictures and get an independent appraisal from a panel of your peers.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
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