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Every few days my family's pc spontaneously decides to shut down.
It gives me a 30 second warning, claims to be initiated by "NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM" (We run Win XP, if that's relevant).
It explains that the cause was that "the Remote Procedure Protocol (RPC) terminated unexpectedly".
Anyone know whether this is a virus or a genuine fault, and (for either scenario) what I can do about it?
As the rest of my family use the computer, I can't know what people may have unwittingly downloaded.
Thanks
It gives me a 30 second warning, claims to be initiated by "NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM" (We run Win XP, if that's relevant).
It explains that the cause was that "the Remote Procedure Protocol (RPC) terminated unexpectedly".
Anyone know whether this is a virus or a genuine fault, and (for either scenario) what I can do about it?
As the rest of my family use the computer, I can't know what people may have unwittingly downloaded.
Thanks
my advise windowsupdate.com every 2 weeks or set windows to automatically download patches that are released
*runs update and virus stuff*
Thanks people
Thanks people
It's the blaster worm (or variant of). If it happens again, type "shutdown -a" at the command prompt (or in Start->Run) to abort the shutdown. Then use a virus scanner (http://housecall.trendmicro.com/), fix the problems it identifies, then run Windows Update.
For the love of god people, please run Windows Update.
For the love of god people, please run Windows Update.
Run windows update a few times, its a kind of virus yeah, send a certain signal to a specific port on an XP machine, and it will shut down. Microsoft have since solved this with a patch.
Every few days my family's pc spontaneously decides to shut down.
It gives me a 30 second warning, claims to be initiated by "NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM" (We run Win XP, if that's relevant).
It explains that the cause was that "the Remote Procedure Protocol (RPC) terminated unexpectedly".
Anyone know whether this is a virus or a genuine fault, and (for either scenario) what I can do about it?
As the rest of my family use the computer, I can't know what people may have unwittingly downloaded.
Thanks
It gives me a 30 second warning, claims to be initiated by "NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM" (We run Win XP, if that's relevant).
It explains that the cause was that "the Remote Procedure Protocol (RPC) terminated unexpectedly".
Anyone know whether this is a virus or a genuine fault, and (for either scenario) what I can do about it?
As the rest of my family use the computer, I can't know what people may have unwittingly downloaded.
Thanks