Amy
December 8th 03, 08:35 PM
I spoke to a tech at Earthlink who had the same thing
happen to him! It's neither a virus nor a program, but
rather someone using a "back door" into our computers.
Pretty scary stuff.
There is a "bug" on XP that Microspft recently detected.
Go to microsoft.com and "downloads" and it's the #4 most
popular download called "Windows XP Security Patch: Buffer
Overrun in RPC Interface Could Allow Code Execution".
Load it on your computer.
Also, the technician had me go to "start", "all
programs" "startup" and make sure that nothing strange was
there. In my case the "bugs" 1528, 3432 and 736 were
there. He told me to right click and delete them and then
restart the computer and so far, so good (knock on wood).
I hope that this solution helps your problem as well, and
if we can stop these one at a time, it will be worth it.
Good luck,
Amy
>-----Original Message-----
>For the last 2 or three days I get a System Shut Down
>window with the dreaded Red x that says my computer is
>going to shut down in 60 seconds. It says "system
>Shutting Down..blah blah....NT Authority/System" then
>another line that says Remote Procedure Call Service
>Terminate. I called Dell and my ISP and both seemed to
>indicate that someone was logging onto my computer
>remotely.
>
>Has anyone seen this before? Is it a virus? and worst
>of all do you think that they have done something to my
>system or they are just screwing around with me and
>shutting down the system?
>
>please send e-mail (it goes to my phone) as I don't know
>when I'll have access to this board again.
>
>Thanks
>.
>
happen to him! It's neither a virus nor a program, but
rather someone using a "back door" into our computers.
Pretty scary stuff.
There is a "bug" on XP that Microspft recently detected.
Go to microsoft.com and "downloads" and it's the #4 most
popular download called "Windows XP Security Patch: Buffer
Overrun in RPC Interface Could Allow Code Execution".
Load it on your computer.
Also, the technician had me go to "start", "all
programs" "startup" and make sure that nothing strange was
there. In my case the "bugs" 1528, 3432 and 736 were
there. He told me to right click and delete them and then
restart the computer and so far, so good (knock on wood).
I hope that this solution helps your problem as well, and
if we can stop these one at a time, it will be worth it.
Good luck,
Amy
>-----Original Message-----
>For the last 2 or three days I get a System Shut Down
>window with the dreaded Red x that says my computer is
>going to shut down in 60 seconds. It says "system
>Shutting Down..blah blah....NT Authority/System" then
>another line that says Remote Procedure Call Service
>Terminate. I called Dell and my ISP and both seemed to
>indicate that someone was logging onto my computer
>remotely.
>
>Has anyone seen this before? Is it a virus? and worst
>of all do you think that they have done something to my
>system or they are just screwing around with me and
>shutting down the system?
>
>please send e-mail (it goes to my phone) as I don't know
>when I'll have access to this board again.
>
>Thanks
>.
>