PC will shutdown like a time bomb

[linkin park]

a message would pop up on my moniter .. ."Windows XP is shutting down,save your unfinished task,it will shut down in 48:00 minutes.this shut down has been initiated by the adminstrator " . ." . well i the administrator have not done anything of this sort , on the contrary its an annoyance to me.I want to get rid of it ....help me please

 

[ThinkFree]

Your computer is infected with some virus. Run a complete virus scan with antivirus having latest updates.
To stop this shutdown, you can enter shutdown -a in run dialog .

 

[linkin park]

thanks thinkfree .it worked

 

[paroh]

shutdown -a (Abort a system shutdown)

 

[parthbarot]

that message mostly comes on "shutdown -t <time>" command...which happens on RPC errors in windows... so take care and check with prcView or processExplorer which process is doing stuff which u thnk can be a virus or something bad...

regards.

 

[ThinkFree]

^^A similar message comes on a pc infected with msblast worm, just username is changed.