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re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus?
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 10:06 pm
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Posted by Matite (1 messages posted)

A customer/friend had the same problem, the file edb002.bat contains hundreds of lines of the shutdown command. The file was suspected to have been installed from a COD4 mod.

On Friday, December 7, 2007 at 6:12 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote:
>Matt, I would say the edb002.bat file was the culprit. Did you look at the file to
>see what it has in it? That would be interesting to know.
>

dwtrig20.exe has something to do with MS's Dr. Watson stuff so is okay, but definitely
>does not need to start at boot time so disabling it is a good idea.
>

jusched.exe is the Java Update Scheduler and doesn't need to start at boot time
>either. You can check the Java site once a month or so to see if any update is available.

Written in response to:
re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Rich Kurtz: Friday, December 7, 2007 at 6:12 pm)

Responses to this message:
re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Rich Kurtz: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 4:23 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]

Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 2:17 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Deb: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 3:16 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 3:25 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 3:31 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 5:16 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Deb: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 5:27 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 2:37 am)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Rich Kurtz: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 4:29 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 4:58 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Rich Kurtz: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 8:00 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 1:13 am)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 1:59 am)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 2:01 am)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (jcrespo: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 7:57 am)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Deb: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 3:57 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Rich Kurtz: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 6:12 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matt Hartley: Sat, Dec 8, 2007, 5:14 am)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Matite: Tue, Dec 18, 2007, 10:06 pm)

re: Computer shuts down on start-up, possible virus? (Rich Kurtz: Wed, Dec 19, 2007, 4:23 pm)

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