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Madcatz · 04-21-2008, 07:43 AM

I would say this sounds more like a hardware problem than a virus. there are virus's that will shutdown or restart a computer, but they will completely shut it down.

one thing you could do, update your virus protection on the new computer, shut it down, take the hard drive out of the old and hook it up to your new one, run a scan on it, if nothing comes up, then copy over the data that you need, once your done, unhook the the drive from the new PC.

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Madcatz Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 232 OS: 98se/XP Home/XP Pro/Vista My System	Re: Computer crashes--started during virus scans, then itunes, then during back-up I would say this sounds more like a hardware problem than a virus. there are virus's that will shutdown or restart a computer, but they will completely shut it down. one thing you could do, update your virus protection on the new computer, shut it down, take the hard drive out of the old and hook it up to your new one, run a scan on it, if nothing comes up, then copy over the data that you need, once your done, unhook the the drive from the new PC.