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More info on RPC hack attempts
Monday, August 11, 2003 at 4:32 pm
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Posted by Grayson Morris (5 messages posted)


Here's the official MS blurb on this:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823980


We were, just as you, getting slammed every time we reconnected. That's why we disabled 
the RPC service -- to give us enough time to download the patch. So if you don't 
have enough time to download it before you get the RPC screen of death again, there 
are two things you can do:

1) disable your RPC service, and then come back to Anton's message to get your system 
back after you've downloaded and installed the patch; or

2) set the time-to-shutdown-after-failure option for RPC to something greater than 
1 minute (the default) to give you time to complete the download. I suppose this 
gives the hacker more time for what they want as well.

Both options are implemented via control panel / administrative tools / services, 
right-click on RPC entry, then follow the screens. (Sorry I'm not more hands-on descriptive 
here; it's real late here in the Netherlands and I'm going to bed now that I finally 
have a taskbar and a PC that starts up in less than two hours again :-) ). 

Regards,

--Grayson




On Monday, August 11, 2003 at 3:54 pm, Grayson Morris wrote: >Matt and Serge, > >You are being hacked



Written in response to:
re: RpcS termin prob (Grayson Morris: Monday, August 11, 2003 at 3:54 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: More info on RPC hack attempts (coolku: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 12:26 am)

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-RPC Win XP Service Problem (Nelson: Sun, Oct 6, 2002, 5:24 am)
-re: RPC Win XP Service Problem (Everett: Thu, Oct 10, 2002, 3:26 pm)
-re: RPC Win XP Service Problem (Josh Franks: Wed, Jun 11, 2003, 11:56 am)
*re: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) (Everett: Mon, Jun 23, 2003, 8:20 pm)
-re: RPC Win XP Service Problem (Wolfgang Hatscher-Buelk: Fri, Jun 20, 2003, 8:37 am)
-re: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) (Everett: Mon, Jun 23, 2003, 8:00 pm)
-re: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) (Ezenitin_99: Thu, Jun 26, 2003, 10:26 am)
-re: RpcSs Registry Fix (Everett: Thu, Jun 26, 2003, 1:01 pm)
-re: RpcSs Registry Fix (Anton B: Wed, Jul 30, 2003, 5:39 am)
-re: RpcSs Service (Everett: Wed, Jul 30, 2003, 2:49 pm)
-re: RpcSs Service (Anton B: Wed, Jul 30, 2003, 4:12 pm)
-re: RpcSs Service (Anton B: Thu, Jul 31, 2003, 6:56 am)
-re: RpcSs Service (Everett: Thu, Jul 31, 2003, 7:13 pm)
-re: RpcS termin prob (Serge: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 12:54 pm)
-re: RpcS termin prob (Matthew Nagel: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 3:49 pm)
-re: RpcS termin prob (Grayson Morris: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 3:54 pm)
-More info on RPC hack attempts (Grayson Morris: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 4:32 pm)
-re: More info on RPC hack attempts (coolku: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 12:26 am)
-re: More info on RPC hack attempts (kamil: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 4:20 am)
-re: More info on RPC hack attempts (Anton B: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 5:24 am)
*re: More info on RPC hack attempts (kamil: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 7:36 am)
-re: More info on RPC hack attempts (caitnelson: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 1:06 pm)
-re: More info on RPC hack attempts (caitnelson: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 1:49 pm)
*re: More info on RPC hack attempts (Quaker: Wed, Oct 29, 2003, 10:40 pm)
*Blaster worm Eradication......especially win xp (vipin: Sat, Aug 16, 2003, 12:28 am)
-re: RpcS termin prob (JP: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 4:05 pm)
*re: RpcS termin prob (Matthew Nagel: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 5:02 pm)
*re: RpcS termin prob (lawbo: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 6:15 pm)
*re: RpcS termin prob..mines the same way (Jonathan: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 5:15 pm)
-re: RpcSs Service (Craig Lalley: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 2:37 am)
*re: RpcSs Service (Anton B: Sat, Aug 16, 2003, 10:52 pm)
-re: RpcSs Service (Matt B: Mon, Aug 4, 2003, 9:25 am)
*re: RpcSs Service (c3dy8911r: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 3:26 pm)
-re: RpcSs Service (Alex: Tue, Aug 5, 2003, 11:51 pm)
*re: RpcSs Service (mars.z: Fri, Aug 22, 2003, 5:03 am)
*re: RpcSs Service (Grayson Morris: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 3:50 pm)
*re: RpcSs Service (V1RTU4L: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 7:18 pm)
-re: RpcSs Service (Chris B: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 9:39 pm)
-re: RpcSs Service (Chris B: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 10:40 pm)
*re: RpcSs Service (Anton B: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 5:33 am)
-re: RpcSs Service (stesson: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 2:12 am)
*re: RpcSs Service (Anton B: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 5:29 am)
-re: RpcSs Service (kamil: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 4:31 am)
-re: RpcSs Service (AaronLee: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 12:19 pm)
*re: RpcSs Service (Petrb: Mon, Sep 26, 2005, 1:35 pm)
*re: RpcSs Service (Everett: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 10:03 am)
-re: RpcSs Service (missmuffet: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 3:09 pm)
-re: RpcSs Service (Anton B: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 6:32 am)
*re: RpcSs Service (xinle wu: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 12:13 pm)
*re: RpcSs Service (timba: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 7:36 pm)
*re: RpcSs Service (Rokkit99: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 7:44 pm)
*re: RpcSs Service (kevin: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 6:34 am)
*re: RpcSs Service (Kevin: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 11:52 pm)
*re: RpcSs Service (scattman: Fri, Aug 15, 2003, 3:29 pm)
*re: RpcSs Service (jon: Sat, Aug 16, 2003, 1:29 pm)
*re: RpcSs Service (Tom: Tue, Aug 26, 2003, 12:10 am)
*re: RpcSs Service (Scott: Thu, Sep 4, 2003, 6:55 am)
*re: RpcSs Service (Biff: Sun, Sep 7, 2003, 3:38 pm)
*re: RpcSs Service (James Hood: Mon, Sep 8, 2003, 8:10 pm)
*re: RpcSs Service (Yonger: Mon, Sep 15, 2003, 5:23 pm)
*re: RpcSs Service- Thanks (Juergen: Fri, Sep 26, 2003, 2:42 am)