I believe one of my old collegees has set a scheduled task to start at 9:30 every day on one of the pc's in our office ( he now no longer works here ). At 9:30 precisely the pc shutdowns however this doesnt seem to be the case if im not logged in to that pc. Ive searched for erroneous batch files and hunted high and low in the task schedular but i cant find anything to indicate that the task is being generated by the pc. Could anyone come up with some suggestions as to where i might find this pesky little process ?
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Jump to PostIs it possible that this task is being executed from a remote computer? Shutting down PCs remotely is easily accomplished.
Jump to PostOk so you are on a domain? There could be various tools that would shutdown the PCs at a certain time. Your idea about disconnecting the network interface would prove if its coming from a remote system.
however, aside from a scheduled task on your computer, it could also be …
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