A black see through screen slides down from the top of the Mac and tells me to switch off using power button. Nothing works other than just that. I run sophos up to date and use Safari. Everything is up to date. My Mac is a 21" and is three years old.

As per title. Twice in a few hours. Happened each time when my BT router defaulted to plain public wi-fi and while I waited for airport to locate my router hub I just ticked my hub and boom this dark almost black see through screen slid down and instructed me to switch off using power button. It is a 3 year old desktop 21" and has been faultless until this. I get the default report an unexpected shutdown form and when I fire up it is fine as indeed it is now.
Any help or ideas how to deal with?

That is a kernel panic.
What is a Kernel Panic?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3742
and http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1892?viewlocale=en_US
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2002/tn2063.html
More details here:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html
Useful articles on how to avoid and eliminate kernel panics here:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10344626-263.html?tag=mfiredir
http://www.macworld.com/article/2027201/how-to-troubleshoot-a-kernel-panic.html# tk.nl_mwhelp

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