I have had enough with these 1-minute shutdowns which made me search all the Google
and find a solution.
Many solutions online would suggest you download a bulk of softwares and try them out. I always wondered if i could keep my system running that long then why would I search for 1 minute shut down. So after doing quite a bit of research, I use this standard "pattern"
Usually there are two types of these 1-min shutdown. You would get a dialog box with a timer counting from 60 seconds to 0 after which your system reboots and it is a very rude reboot - not the usual reboot.
1. Due to RPC
2. Due to Lsass.exe (some service I don't know)
There was some bug in the RPC implementation of Windows which was taken advantage of by network worms and gives those 1 min shutdowns.
Actually these dialogs are made by Windows for their service management! If some background service raises some unwanted exception it is capable of giving such a dialog. So each service would have such option to control the action to be taken when such errors occur.
To resolve these RPC shutdown, go to Services from
Control Panel -> Administrative Tools and search for the first entry of Remote Procedure Call (RPC), double click on it to launch the properties dialog and go to tje Recovery tab and in there set the first three combo box to TAKE NO ACTION. By default it would be restart the computer.
RPC timer stopped!
Now lets deal with the lsass.exe, which is once again a service, but the approach is straight forward. Don't think twice and enable the built in firewall in Windows XP even if you hate it. Then reboot the machine, you are safe now. I am sure. But hold on , the Windows firewall can't prevent this for a longtime. So in this reboot, install your favorite firewall.
Always make sure that you have the latest version of Stinger in your kit. You can download it from:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
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