[thelist] connection and then a reboot virus?

[John C Bullas]

At 08:25 28/12/2003, you wrote
>Hi All
>
>Firstly Merry Xmas to you all.
>
>I have a problem or at least my brother has a problem and the best discription
>he has given me is this.
>
>He conects to the internet using a virgin dialup account and after 10 
>minutes of
>being connected his machine reboots itself.
>
>I am sure this is a virus but cannot remember which one.  Before the reboot an
>error message pops up saying something about NT, can anyone recall which virus
>this is and any links for info to get rid of it?

Install a free off the net anti virus package to ID the "bug" then follow
the on-line instructions

Can he be a bit more explicit on the error messages as there are a few 
virii around ;)

What O.S. is he using?


>Thank you
>Andrew