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re: Question about 'Restoring Windows Windows XP' Friday, November 9, 2001 at 5:00 pm Posted by Tim (9 messages posted) If you are upgrading from Win98 or WinMe, I suggest that you boot from the WinXP CD and do a complete install. I haven't had any luck except for an upgrade from Win2K... You won't lose your personal information, but you will have to reinstall your programs. On Friday, November 9, 2001 at 5:42 am, Syed Salman wrote: >I have a question about My windows XP after starting is giving an error of Rundll >DotNet.... >and then it gives a message Remote Procedure Call(RPC) terminated Shutting Down Windows >In One Minute. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Restoring Windows Windows XP' Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 3:36 am Posted by MuSicA (1 messages posted) so what will i do other than doing this, anyone have other ways to get this thingy out .... like reinstall the rpc and stuff On Friday, November 9, 2001 at 5:00 pm, Tim wrote: >If you are upgrading from Win98 or WinMe, I suggest that you boot from the WinXP >CD and do a complete install. I haven't had any luck except for an upgrade from Win2K... >You won't lose your personal information, but you will have to reinstall your programs. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Restoring Windows Windows XP' Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 7:55 am Posted by jennifer (1 messages posted) i keep getting a message that pops up this is what it says, this system is shutting down, please save all work in progress and log off. any unsaved changes will be lost. this shutdown was initiated by nt authority/system then there is a message window that says, windows must now restart because the remote procedure call service terminated unexpectedly, how can i fix the problem On Friday, November 9, 2001 at 5:00 pm, Tim wrote: >If you are upgrading from Win98 or WinMe, I suggest that you boot from the WinXP >CD and do a complete install. I haven't had any luck except for an upgrade from Win2K... >You won't lose your personal information, but you will have to reinstall your programs. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Restoring Windows Windows XP' Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 10:21 am Posted by barry (1 messages posted) This has also been happening to me in the last couple days, and it's truly annoying. Anybody find out what can be done? My search continues, and I'll keep you posted if I find anything. B On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 7:55 am, jennifer wrote: >i keep getting a message that pops up this is what it says, this system is shutting >down, please save all work in progress and log off. any unsaved changes will be >lost. this shutdown was initiated by nt authority/system > > then there is a message window that says, windows must now restart because the remote >procedure call service terminated unexpectedly, how can i fix the problem > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Restoring Windows Windows XP' Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 10:38 am Posted by Mark Slaten (1 messages posted) Same thing started happening to me yesterday. I restored the system, tried to run a clean-up from the XP restore disk, etc. I discovered that if I turn off my cable modem, then the problem dissapears, but this is not a practicle solution for me. Any ideas?? On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 10:21 am, barry wrote: >This has also been happening to me in the last couple days, and it's truly annoying. > Anybody find out what can be done? My search continues, and I'll keep you posted >if I find anything. > >B > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Restoring Windows Windows XP' Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 10:50 am Posted by Taylor Hayes (1 messages posted) the same problem has happened to me...i installed symantec norton firewall...that seemed to fix the problem...i don't know where it came from...i formatted both of my hard drives and right when i had XP running it happened again..so hopefully that fixed it [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Restoring Windows Windows XP' Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 11:41 am Posted by Amit Patel (1 messages posted) Got this too. It's a symptom of the Blaster Worm that's started to spread. Microsoft Tech Bulletin: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp Symantec Info: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html Symantec Removal tool: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/FixBlast.exe On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 10:50 am, Taylor Hayes wrote: >the same problem has happened to me...i installed symantec norton firewall...that >seemed to fix the problem...i don't know where it came from...i formatted both of >my hard drives and right when i had XP running it happened again..so hopefully that >fixed it [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Restoring Windows Windows XP' Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 12:27 pm Posted by bill dozier (1 messages posted) I was hit with this problem last night and tried everything to no avail!! Discovered today that it is a virus named Blast and it starts when you start Windows so ALL other remedies fail. Go to Symantec and find their Free Tool to remove this virus. Then after it runs it will guide you to the Microsoft site to download a patch to prevent it in the future. I did all of this and system is FINE now ... Pass It On On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 3:36 am, MuSicA wrote: >so what will i do other than doing this, anyone have other ways to get this thingy >out .... like reinstall the rpc and stuff > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Restoring Windows Windows XP' Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 1:03 pm Posted by Saad Alrowaily (1 messages posted) Hi all, go to this link from microsoft web site to know the problem & solve it... http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2354406C-C5B6-44AC-9532-3DE40F69C074&displaylang=en On Friday, November 9, 2001 at 5:42 am, Syed Salman wrote: >I have a question about My windows XP after starting is giving an error of Rundll >DotNet.... >and then it gives a message Remote Procedure Call(RPC) terminated Shutting Down Windows >In One Minute. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Restoring Windows Windows XP' Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 4:25 pm Posted by squig (1 messages posted) I found that I had the worm blast virus too, I thought something went bloomin wrong on my pc. Formatted the drive and still it wasn't working. Only now have I installed Zone Alarm and it's working a charm. But still I had better remove this virus ! Cheers. Any firewall software appears to help my computer too. On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 1:03 pm, Saad Alrowaily wrote: >Hi all, go to this link from microsoft web site to know the problem & solve it... >http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2354406C-C5B6-44AC-9532-3DE40F69C074&displaylang=en > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Restoring Windows Windows XP' Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 4:59 pm Posted by Janet (1 messages posted) PLEASE PLEASE help me!! I'm getting this same annoying problem! It started... maybe a month ago.. and would happen about once every day... Then, as of yesterday, it has been happening everything I log onto the internet. If I'm not on the internet.. everything is fine. I'm on my sister's computer now, so I was able to download the patch for this "worm virus" and installed it on my computer... but the problem still exists! I searched my computer for this virus and it said that the virus was not found on my computer... so what can I do?? I suppose I could try a firewall... but I'd rather not, because the last time I did, it was really rather annoying. I'm quite sick of not being on the internet... so please email me with any solutions!! (btw. I also got that message about "NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM" Does this have any significance..?) On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 7:55 am, jennifer wrote: >i keep getting a message that pops up this is what it says, this system is shutting >down, please save all work in progress and log off. any unsaved changes will be >lost. this shutdown was initiated by nt authority/system > > then there is a message window that says, windows must now restart because the remote >procedure call service terminated unexpectedly, how can i fix the problem > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Restoring Windows Windows XP' Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 8:22 pm Posted by Tetshou (1 messages posted) http://www.msnbc.com/news/951393.asp?cp1=1 This is a new virus. They refer to it as the Blast Worm. usually it is in the form of msblast.exe Blah blah blah blah, Yeah, Also.... well just go to that URL. it explains everything very good. Hope it helps guys. peace Out [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Restoring Windows Windows XP' Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 6:14 am Posted by Richard (1 messages posted) The following is from /www.cert.org Steps to recover from W32/Blaster These instructions are designed for Windows XP. Under some circumstances, these instructions may not completely disable the worm or protect the system from re-infection. See Notes. Physically disconnect the machine from the network (remove phone/network cable, wireless card). Kill the "msblast.exe" process using Task Manager. Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete key combination Click "Task Manager" button Select "Processes" tab Highlight "msblast.exe" Click "End Process" button, answer "Yes" to warning dialog Delete any files named "msblast.exe" on the machine. Start -> Search -> Find Files or Folders Search for "msblast.exe" Right-click each file and delete it (Optional) Disable DCOM From MS03-026: Run Dcomcnfg.exe. If you are running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 perform these additional steps: Click on the Component Services node under Console Root. Open the Computers sub-folder. For the local computer, right click on My Computer and choose Properties. For a remote computer, right click on the Computers folder and choose New then Computer. Enter the computer name. Right click on that computer name and choose Properties. Choose the Default Properties tab. Select (or clear) the Enable Distributed COM on this Computer check box. If you will be setting more properties for the machine, click the Apply button to enable (or disable) DCOM. Otherwise, click OK to apply the changes and exit Dcomcnfg.exe. Enable Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) From Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 283673: In Control Panel, double-click Networking and Internet Connections, and then click Network Connections. Right-click the connection on which you would like to enable ICF, and then click Properties. On the Advanced tab, click the box to select the option to Protect my computer or network. If you want to enable the use of some applications and services through the firewall, you need to enable them by clicking the Settings button, and then selecting the programs, protocols, and services to be enabled for the ICF configuration Reboot the machine and reconnect to the network. Install the patch from Windows Update, or MS03-026. Using Internet Explorer, go to Windows Update and follow the instructions there to install any available patches. Read and apply the clean up measures outlined in MS03-026. Notes The worm may exist as processes and files with names other than "msblast.exe." It has been reported that AOL network connections do not display an option to use ICF. Disabling DCOM may break things and may be unnecessary (assuming that the worm is completely disabled and ICF is enabled). Another type of host-based or network firewall can be used to block 135/tcp. Save yourself the trouble next time by blocking 135, 137, 138, 139, and 445 tcp and udp inbound and outbound. This will block most MS networking traffic. More Information [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum