From: Chris 

Thanks for the suggestion.  As for the motherboard, it's an Asus A7V266E
motherboard that I have not recently performed any BIOS upgrades on.

Sorry, I can't bring myself to actually use a MS product to remove spyware,
given their already proven-poor track record for security.

The computer has SP2 on it.  I'll check the mobo drivers too.

Thanks again,

Chris


Hrvoje Mesing wrote:
> "Chris"  wrote in message
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>
>>Another good suggestion.  I *think* I turned off the automatic reboots
>>(75% sure) but I'll double check that, too, when I get home, after I
>>restore the backup.
>>
>>Also, any ideas for other spyware-detection/removal programs out there
>>besides Ad-Aware and Spybot?
>
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> Hi,
>
> You can try MS antispyware, then again, nice softW. is Pest Control (I think
> MS bought them but they push their own) which is working quite ok.
> I asked 'bout the chipset because maybe it's an VIA (which is base for AMD
> too) and maybe You should update Your chipset drivers (known problems with
> shutdown).
> Also, if not using SP2 on XP then You could try xpmanager (ver. 4.8* is out
> now) which have an repair option know as: "Repair Windows wont
shutdown" or
> something like that :)
> It's free for 15 days, so ... :p
>
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> M.
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