Someone please guide me in the right direction.

XP either shows me an error message saying that a serious error has occurred and windows will shut down in 59 seconds or it just restarts on its own every few days.

Occaisionally after it reboots, it says that the CPU setting have changed and i have to go into the BIOS to simply exit without saving changes for it to boot up.

Ive run adaware, spybot, and AVG without finding any problems.

I would appreciate any help.

You need to scan with the latest version of HijackThis & then repost your log in the Spyware Section (not here).

If you want to continue this thread please verify the exact error message.

Is it similar to this: "This shutdown is initiated by NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM."?

please follow owen's Instructions and then post your log in the Spyware, Adware, Viruses and HijackThis Logs section.

The error message said that the shutdown was initiated by NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM and that the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) experienced an error.

Just one post from this source:

NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM - RPC Terminated Unexpectedly

You have the Blaster worm.

1st to stop the RPC error so it doesn't interupt you while your making
repairs:
Start | Run | services.msc /s
Scroll down to "Remote Proceedure Call (RPC)" NOT (RPC) Locator
Right click and select properties
Under the "Recovery" Tab change all failures from "Restart the Computer" to
"Restart the Service"
This will keep the RPC from coming up.

Disable msblast.exe in task manager.
Ctrl+Alt+Del | Processes | Right click msblast.exe and click "End Process"

Download the Blaster Security Patch at:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

Download AdAware & Spybot S & D:
AdAware:
www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Spybot S & D:
www.safer-networking.org/

Disconnect from the internet

Run AdAware & Spybot
Run the Security Patch you downloaed earlier.

Make sure you have a firewall and AV software enabled and updated.
As long as you downloded and ran the patch above Blaster shouldn't come back
but there are plenty of others that can find your computer in minutes.

Change the RPC back to "Restart the Computer" the same as you did above.

Reconnect to the Internet and download the rest of the Microsoft Update
Security Patches.

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AdAware: www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Spybot S & D: www.safer-networking.org/

Check for Parasites/Worms: www.gemal.dk/browserspy/parasites.html

CWShredder: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

In other words:

please follow owen's Instructions and then post your log in the Spyware, Adware, Viruses and HijackThis Logs section (Not Here).

I cannot find msblast.exe in the task manager and the link to the blaster patch at microsoft does not work. What should I do?

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