Hi,
First let me just say thanks for this forum. I'm just a homemaker, part-time researcher in benign subject. I don't surf porn, keep a clean machine, have no enemies that I'm aware of and in general keep my life as simple as possible.
I am however living in a rather volatile political country in the Middle East. Ex-Pat if you're interested.
OK - so here's the thing - my PC was on (XP SE3) all of sudden went into sleep mode, I tried to re-awaken it and it shut down. I went into event viewer for the time this occurred and this is what it said:
*Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the Network Card with address xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. The IP being used is YYYYYYYYYYY.
Then right above that there is an ERROR - it says: The following boot-start or system start failed to load
SASDIFSV
SASKUTIL
I have Automatic Updated checked to NO.
I went into Processes and I saw something with au...something - when I tried to see it in another Process Viewer - it appeared for a few seconds then it vanished.
What am I dealing with? I have no spyware - I check it frequently - nothing is loading at start up except for Avast. Have only the most critical services loaded in boot/start.
Am I being paranoid or is Big Brother doing something to my machine?
Any help would be more than appreciated.
BlueBlue
First let me just say thanks for this forum. I'm just a homemaker, part-time researcher in benign subject. I don't surf porn, keep a clean machine, have no enemies that I'm aware of and in general keep my life as simple as possible.
I am however living in a rather volatile political country in the Middle East. Ex-Pat if you're interested.
OK - so here's the thing - my PC was on (XP SE3) all of sudden went into sleep mode, I tried to re-awaken it and it shut down. I went into event viewer for the time this occurred and this is what it said:
*Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the Network Card with address xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. The IP being used is YYYYYYYYYYY.
Then right above that there is an ERROR - it says: The following boot-start or system start failed to load
SASDIFSV
SASKUTIL
I have Automatic Updated checked to NO.
I went into Processes and I saw something with au...something - when I tried to see it in another Process Viewer - it appeared for a few seconds then it vanished.
What am I dealing with? I have no spyware - I check it frequently - nothing is loading at start up except for Avast. Have only the most critical services loaded in boot/start.
Am I being paranoid or is Big Brother doing something to my machine?
Any help would be more than appreciated.
BlueBlue
