Help with Windows XP shutdown error

[Arty]

Hello, I'm trying to help a friend with Win XP through a
problem. When he turns his pc on it stays powered up but
then he gets an error message saying "The system is
shutting down. Please save all work in progress and
logoff. The shutdown was initiated by the Win NT
authtority system. Windows must now restart because the
RPC terminated unexpectedly." After that the pc reboots
automatically. Any ideas on how to fix.

[Chris Lanier]

Thanks for looking around alittle ;)

MS03-026: Buffer Overrun in RPC Interface May Allow Code Execution
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823980

Enable the windows XP Firewall
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/p

roddocs/hnw_enable_firewall.asp

More info about the worm:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

"Arty" > wrote in message
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> Hello, I'm trying to help a friend with Win XP through a
> problem. When he turns his pc on it stays powered up but
> then he gets an error message saying "The system is
> shutting down. Please save all work in progress and
> logoff. The shutdown was initiated by the Win NT
> authtority system. Windows must now restart because the
> RPC terminated unexpectedly." After that the pc reboots
> automatically. Any ideas on how to fix.