Dear all

Forgive the massively OT nature of this post but it's always good to ask
fellow puter bods...

Is anybody experiencing or has seen a problem with Windows XP recently
involving an automatic shutdown? My brother and a friend are both
experiencing this issue. Within minutes of Windows booting up they receive a
dialog informing them of a remote shutdown request through the Remote
Procedure Call client (RPC) from NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM (basically it seems
like a standard remote shutdown request without the remote request!).

I've hit various virus labs and resources for info on a RPC vulnerability or
virus which would do this and can't find anything so far. Anybody know
anything more, or have fixed it (like turning off the whole RPC subsystem :D
and throwing Windows in the bin).

Sorry again

Ross

P.S. I'd appreciate it if all you Mac users waiting until I left before you
snigger at the flaws we wintel users have to put up with...

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