From: Patrick Dolan (dolancc.admin.unt.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 13:21:01 CDT

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The word out is that if you issue a 'shutdown /a' from the command prompt that
will abort the shut down process. I haven't tried it myself but it's
reported to do the trick.

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 12:10 pm, James Montgomery wrote:
> I have noticed that there has been a problem with end users and their
> ability to "snuff" the worm. Many of my remote users cannot stay
> connected to the internet long enough to download the patch or the
> msblast.exe fix. Approximate up time is 2 minutes once connected to the
> internet. Users receive "System is shutting down because of remote
> procedure service termination unexpected"
>
> Has anyone else had this problem? And if so is their an alternative to
> physically making a disk to distribute to end users?
>
> I suspect this will be a problem for many, as most of us are just
> worried about our key systems and servers.
>
> Thank you,
> James
>

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