Any computer guru around? Edited=Shutdown is working !!

#1 Postby **cycloneye** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 8:11 am

I am having problems to shutdown my computer as it not do anything. Any advise about how I can fix that? I think this has to do with that hacker that entered last week as I opened that but got rid of it quickly.

Website · #2 Postby **Brent** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 8:26 am

OK... so do you go to Start and shutdown and all of that and it just sits there? I've had that problem, defintely sounds like a hacker or a virus.

JenBayles · #3 Postby **JenBayles** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 10:40 am

That happened to us frequently our our old piece o' crap HP puter. We had to unplug from the wall to get it to shut down. Turned out it was a bad power supply. Run, don't walk and get it first backed up and checked out. This problem finally caused our machine to totally crash - and yes, we had backups of all the really important stuff!

Anonymous · #4 Postby **Anonymous** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:05 am

I occaisionally had that problem with my HP as well. What operating system are you on? My current pc (win xp on a dell) usually says several programs arent responding and I have to click "end now" to close them and then it shuts down normally. I just choose to shut down or reboot when I have too many programs running. Spyware and viruses can also cause this problem so run spybot and make sure your antivirus is up to date and do a virus scan. Then maybe do ctrl-alt-delete and see if any unusual programs are running. Hope this helps

ChiTownMC · #5 Postby **ChiTownMC** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:49 am

Jekyhe32210 wrote:Spyware and viruses can also cause this problem so run spybot and make sure your antivirus is up to date and do a virus scan. helps

This is what I would do. (Ad-aware, Spybot and AVG) It sounds like you have some spyware or a virus running on your system, but it could be 10 other things. If you do all that and it still happens, go to google and search for the shutdown script for windows, I dont know this off the top of my head. Try that, that should do it. Good Luck

#6 Postby **cycloneye** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:46 pm

I have Windows XP on Dell.I went to system Restore but it didn't work as the PC dont shut down and I have to unplug.

#7 Postby **Cookiely** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:57 pm

cycloneye wrote:I have Windows XP on Dell.I went to system Restore but it didn't work as the PC dont shut down and I have to unplug.

Same thing happened to mine. I went to houscalls and they got rid of the problem and it works fine now.
http://housecall-beta.trendmicro.com/en/start_corp.asp

kmanWX · #8 Postby **kmanWX** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:58 pm

cycloneye wrote:I am having problems to shutdown my computer as it not do anything. Any advise about how I can fix that? I think this has to do with that hacker that entered last week as I opened that but got rid of it quickly.

unplug it

if it dont shut down by than call the ghost busters

rainstorm · #9 Postby **rainstorm** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:58 pm

i had the same problem. my comp had to be wiped clean

kmanWX · #10 Postby **kmanWX** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:03 pm

cycloneye wrote:I have Windows XP on Dell.I went to system Restore but it didn't work as the PC dont shut down and I have to unplug.

Reinstall XP w/o performing a clean install!

#11 Postby **cycloneye** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:13 pm

Cookiely wrote:
cycloneye wrote:I have Windows XP on Dell.I went to system Restore but it didn't work as the PC dont shut down and I have to unplug.

Same thing happened to mine. I went to houscalls and they got rid of the problem and it works fine now.
http://housecall-beta.trendmicro.com/en/start_corp.asp

I went there but I want to know where exactly to go.

#12 Postby **Cookiely** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:40 pm

cycloneye wrote:
Cookiely wrote:
cycloneye wrote:I have Windows XP on Dell.I went to system Restore but it didn't work as the PC dont shut down and I have to unplug.

Same thing happened to mine. I went to houscalls and they got rid of the problem and it works fine now.
http://housecall-beta.trendmicro.com/en/start_corp.asp

I went there but I want to know where exactly to go.

On the link I gave you choose location (united states) and click go.
Next page click blue button
next page click complete scan (virus, trojan, worms, spyware the works)
next page check my computer and then click on next.
It will download the definitions and scan and then give you a report of what they found. Some you have choices on the spyware of remove or not.

#13 Postby **cycloneye** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:54 pm

next page check my computer and then click on next.

Cookiely I went until that phase but after I clicked next a window shows up that housecall is not ready.

depotoo · #14 Postby **depotoo** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 6:43 pm

cycloneeye - do you have micorsofts antivirus and spyware installed?
if not here is the link - try them and see what happens.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/securit ... fault.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx

once you download them run and see what they find. hope this helps.

let me know if it helps!

#15 Postby **cycloneye** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 7:05 pm

depotoo wrote:cycloneeye - do you have micorsofts antivirus and spyware installed?
if not here is the link - try them and see what happens.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/securit ... fault.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx

once you download them run and see what they find. hope this helps.

let me know if it helps!

BINGO !!!!! Yes it Shut down finnally.Thank you depotoo and the rest who helped.

This has been a big lesson for me to not open anything suspisious.

depotoo · #16 Postby **depotoo** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 7:10 pm

yea! glad i could help - it is great they have finally come up with their own products.

#17 Postby **Cookiely** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 7:21 pm

cycloneye wrote:next page check my computer and then click on next.

Cookiely I went until that phase but after I clicked next a window shows up that housecall is not ready.

Try late at night or early in the morning. I've had this happen when they are unusually busy.

#18 Postby **cycloneye** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 7:24 pm

Cookiely wrote:
cycloneye wrote:next page check my computer and then click on next.

Cookiely I went until that phase but after I clicked next a window shows up that housecall is not ready.

Try late at night or early in the morning. I've had this happen when they are unusually busy.

Well it is not needed anymore as I finnally made the download and now my PC shuts down thanks to my friend depotoo.

#19 Postby **Cookiely** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 8:02 pm

Glad to hear everything is okay now. I agree I'm going to be much more careful in the future. Thank you depotoo for the links. Never know when they might come in handy.

depotoo · #20 Postby **depotoo** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 8:15 pm

everyone - even if you already have a firewall and antivirus and spyware you cans still download athese and run these with them - you will see when you do it how - you end up with double protection and it is amazing how one will find something when the other does not.

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