Simviation Forum - Windows Mutiny?

Sep 23^rd, 2003 at 2:28am

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This happened once yesterday, didn't concern me, but today it's done it like 4 times.

I was browsing the internet when this little box popped up wuthout any warning, counted down to zero and shut the computer down.

What's going on?

Thanks

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Reply #1 - Sep 23^rd, 2003 at 9:02am

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I guess they have decided that you had spent too much time online?

Not sure what to tell ya,

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Reply #2 - Sep 23^rd, 2003 at 9:47am

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Sounds to me you may have a remote control hacker trojan horse. This type of virus allows hackers to remotely control any function of your computer. Do a full virus scan and if you don't have one, you may wish to purchase a third party firewall like Norton Internet Security.

I only pretend to know what I'm talking about. Heck, that's what lawyers, car mechanics, and IT professionals do everyday. Wink

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Reply #3 - Sep 23^rd, 2003 at 12:25pm

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I'm using Zone Alarm, which IS a firewall. It's so effective that It won't allow access to a lot of websites... Roll Eyes

But I probably shut it off to to view a website

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Reply #4 - Sep 23^rd, 2003 at 7:20pm

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Anybody who knows your IP or NetBIOS name can shut you down like that,I'm not sure where that came from,but,as you can see it tells you who initiated it.'NT AUTHORITY' is the system's name and 'SYSTEM' is the user account that was logged in that did it.Be grateful,they are giving you a minute to close all your stuff,by default you get 10 seconds.lol.
If you want to see what it does,go to your command line (type 'cmd' in the 'run' box) or create a new shortcut and enter 'shutdown -t 10 -s' (the 10 is the amount of seconds you have time you have until it's going to shut down so you can change that accordingly).

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Reply #5 - Sep 24^th, 2003 at 3:02am

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It was that bloody lovsan worm Angry

But for the life of me I can't figure out how it got onto my system ??? Roll Eyes

I don't even ever run e-mails attachments

For some reason my firewall wasn't allowing my anti-virus program to automatically update it's virus description, but It's now updated and back in business.

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Reply #6 - Sep 24^th, 2003 at 9:43am

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Well good to hear that you were able to get it straightened out!

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Reply #7 - Oct 7^th, 2003 at 3:05pm

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Sorry to be very mean, but you are all wrong if I am not very much mistaken. The RPC, Remote Procedure Call , is a part of XP that manages automated computer management tasks. This error will come up if the program crashes, is overloaded, or you closed it accidentally through Task Manager. It really is nothing to worry about, just let your computer restart.

I've had it a few times, nothing to worry about, really Wink

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Reply #8 - Oct 8^th, 2003 at 3:20am

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No Offense, but your only partially correct.

I can open the task manager and shut certain processes down, and the same thing will happen.

BUT, the problem I had was whenever I shut my firewall down, that would happen on it's own by itself, without any interaction from me.

And it was the lovesan worm/virus that I deleted off my system.

But now I've got my antivirus scheduled to do a complete scan everynight, and I NEVER shut my firewall down. It's just too risky out there, especially since I don't install any security updates for WinXP Wink

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Reply #9 - Oct 8^th, 2003 at 4:19pm

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Righto, I don't know where I heard that, but it seems to have stuck Wink

. I as I said have had this problem, but only, as you say, when I accidentally stop the system RPC service.

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