svchost.exe crash - "The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service terminated"

[Fred Appleyard]

If I already have Service Pack 4 installed, but I'm getting the following
svchost.exe error, Should I reinstall SP4, or is there a special fix
available for this bug?

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7031
Date: 8/10/2003
Time: 10:41:54 PM
User: N/A
Computer: FRED
Description:
The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service terminated unexpectedly.

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Fred Appleyard

 

[subzero]

Svchost opens a port number 135 on your computer and it is
used for Microsoft DCE Locator service aka. end-point
mapper. It works like Sun RPC portmapper, except that end-
points can also be named pipes. Microsoft relies upon DCE
RPC to remotely manage services. Some services that use
port 135 of end-point mapping are:
DHCP server
DNS server
WINS server


You should look the above services but my experience says
that if you have a Domain Controller your DNS Service is
not configured corectly.
If you have firewall installed DO NOT block the
Svchost.exe.

The RPC service is a very assential service and a lot of
services are depending from this.Be Careful especially
when the DC is on line.

GOOD LUCK!

 

[Troy]

I started experiencing this yesterday also and after doing everything
from reinstalling to blowing my brains out I finally found the answer.

You are infected with the new Blaster Worm

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

Easiest way to see if you have it is to search on your C: drive for a
file called MSBLAST.EXE.

I initially renamed this to msblast.exe.001 then rebooted.
Everything back to normal. To protect yourself update virus table and
run all critical updates from micrososft.

Troy