When I run NetSwitcher and click the Apply button, I get a dialog that pops up and says that my system is shutting down in 30 (or 60) seconds. Why would NetSwitcher do that?
This is a good news/bad news situation. The good news is that NetSwitcher is not causing this, at least not directly. The bad news is that the thing that is causing it is a virus. There are any number of virus programs in the wild today that monitor many system and network properties and, in an attempt to protect themselves from removal, force a system shutdown when anything they are watching gets changed. So when NetSwitcher tries to change one of these settings based on your input, the virus detects that and does a shutdown. “Ok”, you might say. “But I run Norton AntiVirus.” Well, the other issue here is that many of these same virus programs DISABLE Norton, McAfee, as well as most other AV programs. They look like they are running fine but in fact are not. The solution is to get a stand-alone AV tool, or one that can be booted from a CDROM and scan for and remove the virus on your PC. UPDATE: There is one other possibility that I’ve recently become aware of. It’s described in Micros
