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I had a run-in with Spyware a while ago, had to reformat my hard drive. I've been scanning weekly since then, but I missed a week or two. My internet started slowing down recently, so I tried to scan via Ad-Aware but after a few seconds of scanning a message saying "SYSTEM WILL SHUT DOWN IN 60 SECONDS This was iniated by /NTAuthority" and the computer restarts. So far nothing else has provoked this, only scanning for Spyware.
I really don't want to re-format again, is there anything I can do to get rid of it?
I really don't want to re-format again, is there anything I can do to get rid of it?
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It´s quite a read but it will help you with getting rid of malware and viruses now and preventing it in the future.
There was a worm a while back that did this, but it has been so long that I forgot the name.
Also, Google gives me several interesting results for "ntauthority"
That was the worm known as Blaster. It attacked the RPC service, causing the process lsass to crash with a buffer overflow most of the time. That crash is what triggers the system ("Ntauthority\system") to initiate a shutdown.
It probably isn't that worm (unless you haven't patched your system since 2004). But it could be a similar situation.