Gaming Virus???

[EnigmaXtreme]

Ok I dont know what happened, but i got a Quarantine popup message about svchost or something and then my computer went thru the shut down prompt and well shut down. When I booted it up again, it went through the welcome screen and then a few minutes later went through the shut down prompt again. I was able to stop it by going into Task Manager and ending the shutdown.exe process that for some reason launched before it could execute?

Any help?

 

[DarkRey]

dunno but this might help you
http://askleo.com/svchost_and_svchostexe_c...s_and_more.html

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

dunno but this might help you
http://askleo.com/svchost_and_svchostexe_c...s_and_more.html

404 Dude

 

[Golfman560]

I think the link is missing a few / since that is one long file name for a html

 

[UltraMagnus]

more info is needed.

what OS? what service pack? kernal version, etc
do you have any anti virus software?

oh, and if its windows XP, I have seen something vaguely similar after installation of SP3

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

more info is needed.

what OS? what service pack? kernal version, etc
do you have any anti virus software?

oh, and if its windows XP, I have seen something vaguely similar after installation of SP3

SP2 and I just downloaded AVG free

 

[juggernaut911]

more info is needed.

what OS? what service pack? kernal version, etc
do you have any anti virus software?

oh, and if its windows XP, I have seen something vaguely similar after installation of SP3

SP2 and I just downloaded AVG free

Avast! > AVG

MalwareBytes is a good one too. run both and scan with both

 

[MicShadow]

Shutdown.exe isnt launched to shutdown the 'legit' way. Its a virus disguised as svchost probably

Run msconfig.exe, go to startup and check out anything suss there. And anti-malware scan/anti virus/Hijack This log

 

[m3rox]

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is highly recommended.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

 

[UltraMagnus]

more info is needed.

what OS? what service pack? kernal version, etc
do you have any anti virus software?

oh, and if its windows XP, I have seen something vaguely similar after installation of SP3

SP2 and I just downloaded AVG free

Avast! > AVG

MalwareBytes is a good one too. run both and scan with both

seconded.

also, you could try running clamAV or similar from a linux partition/disk

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

After a run through with AVG it seems to have been fixed.