window's shut down pop up

for the past few weeks now every 10 minutes a window pop's up, and it says something along the lines of "other users on on, are u sure u want to shut down...yes or no" almost EVERY 10 minutes, and it gets reall anyoing. also, if no one else is loged on( I have windows XP) it will just automaticly shut down

i scaned my whole computer for virsus, and none are present.

dose anyone know whats going on here?!?! please help

thanks a lot

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ever heard of

Adaware

Spybot search and destroy

also, did you turn off messanger in Xp services?

yeah, i do have addaware, and when i run it, should i jsut go ahead and dealeat or quarinte everyting in there, or could that cause more trouble

no trouble ...just delete every spyware it finds ;)

cool thanks, i was wondering, becuase i didn't know what some of it was, and i dind't wanna *** anything up

Certainly the first step is to check for and remove ad-ware. However, it seems to me that it could be other things as well. If running a removal program doesn't take care of it, let us know and provide some more detail.

just a stab in the dark...search for sub7 too..., I could be terribly wrong...but sum1 could also be phuckin with you.

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Originally posted here by theyortiscool
for the past few weeks now every 10 minutes a window pop's up, and it says something along the lines of "other users on on, are u sure u want to shut down...yes or no" almost EVERY 10 minutes, and it gets reall anyoing. also, if no one else is loged on( I have windows XP) it will just automaticly shut down

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I have a couple of questions.
When this happens, are you the only one logged in ? or are you using the 'fast user switching' utility in XP ?
It sounds to me you have been compromised if this happens when you are the only logged in.
Further, are you running a firewall ? you definatly should. Here are some free ones:
sygate
zone-alarm
outpost

You should also try to search for possible trojans on your system using something like:
The Cleaner or
Tauscan

I hope this can be of any help, feel free to ask if you have more questions.

Buenos Dias
noODle

Something that nobody else seems to have addressed is:

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every 10 minutes a window pop's up, and it says something along the lines of "other users on on, are u sure u want to shut down...yes or no" almost EVERY 10 minutes

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and it sounds like you aren't hitting the shut down button or anything...it's just trying to shut down all on it's own. This would be more than just a problem of having more than one active account.....actually this could be one of a million things so I can't really give you an answer but here's a question for you: does this seem to be tied to anything else? Like, does it do it every time you run a specific program? There could be some kind of script (more like an auto-executing shortcut...) that somebody put on there as a joke that would make it try and shut down without any warning every 10 min....I've done something similar to that to a friend's computer as a joke. If this were the case then I doubt that ad-aware or a firewall could stop it. You'd have to talk to the person that had access to your computer right before it started acting up.