it is happening more often now, here is the message I am getting:

"THE SHUTDOWN WAS INITIATED BY NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM
The system process
'C:\WINDOWS\system32\Isass.exe'
terminated unexpectedly with status code 128.
The system will shutdown and restart."

what can be wrong
thank you

Follow these directions to remove The Sasser Worm from your computer:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/sasser.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Jupiter Jones]

What You Should Know About Sasser
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser.mspx

A tool is available to remove the Sasser worm variants
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;841720

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...xp/choose.mspx

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"Maggie" wrote:

| it is happening more often now, here is the message I am getting:
|
| "THE SHUTDOWN WAS INITIATED BY NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM
| The system process
| 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\Isass.exe'
| terminated unexpectedly with status code 128.
| The system will shutdown and restart."
|
| what can be wrong
| thank you