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[Dan]

Please help
My comp. shuts down automaticly.
I get a NT\Authority System...RPC service notice.
Just started this the last few weeks.
I am running XP Home ed.
Can anyone help with this?????
Thank you

 

[Tim]

Search this newsgroup for "RPC" or "NT\Authority" and you'll find a ton of
messages already asked and answered regarding this problem.

You've been infected with a virus

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

 

[Rowan]

"Can anyone help with this?"
Can anyone believe people are still getting infected witht he Blaster virus?

For the past TEN WEEKS, at least, you have had the option of avoiding this
plague by visiting the MS Updates site and taking a minute, literally, of
your valuable time to download the Critical Update patch, but NOOOOOOO.

Ever since you got your computer, you have had the opportunity to lock this
pestilence out by TURNING ON YOUR FIREWALL, but NOOOOOOOO.

Ever since Blaster was released, you have had the opportunity to use
anti-blaster functionality in any decent antivirus program to keep out this
epidemic, but NOOOOOOO.

Don't you read? Don't you care? What is the purpose of going online, if not
to keep yourself informed? To download "pictures?" To converse with online
"friends?" Any newspaper has had full coverage of this since Day One.

 

[Rowan]

Remember that recent article, Too S****d to Surf? Way too stupid.

 

[Kelly]

Hi Dan,

To stop the reboots: Go to Start/Run and type in: services.msc. Scroll down
to Remote Procedure Call (RPC)/Recovery/First Failure/Restart the Service.

Close Windows Explorer, run the edit on line 257 which includes the prompt
for the patch once your system has been cleaned.

This script removes all variants of the W32.Blaster.Worm (original, B, C, D,
E and F) and will inform you whether or not the patch is already installed.
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm. Direct download:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/msblast.vbs

More information here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_qr.htm#rpc

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