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Sat 7 Oct, 2006 12:52 am
My computer restarts when I start a game or other heavy exe
check your CPU fan and make sure it's working. your computer might be getting too hot and shutting itself off to avoid damage.
Also do a virus/worm check.
See McAfee's page on the worm that has symptoms of unsolicited reboots and how to clean it from your PC and protect against it.
Quote:Virus Profile: W32/IRCbot.worm!MS05-039
Indications of Infection
If this worm is run on a system which has not yet been patched for the MS05-039 vulnerability, it may reboot.
Method of Infection
This threat scans for MS05-039 exploitable systems. When a vulnerable system is found, it uses a buffer overflow to write the worm file to that machine via a TFTP upload on port 8594. Blocking this port via McAfee Desktop Firewall or McAfee Personal Firewall will prevent infection even if the buffer overflow is not prevented.
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=135491
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