"Remote Procedure Call terminated" problem

[Vincent]

My cousin runs Windows XP and connects to the netusing BTOpenworld.

Today she has run into problems with it.  She can connect for about five minutes before getting an error message:

Remote Procedure Call terminated unexpectedly

Then the PC has to reset.

Anyone know how to fix this?  This hasn't happened before and she's not the type to go into settings and stuff if she doesn't know what she's doing.

Thanks. :-)

[Vincent]

I honestly have no experience at all with networking stuff, so I don't know what you mean.  This is the first time I've ever heard of this Remote Procedure Call.

In this topic treat me like I'm technically illiterate :-D

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@Merc

I've just read on another forum someone asking about the same thing, no answers there yet though.

@Turambar

I've just had a quick look at that link, but I have no idea where I should go from there to get the patch.  Could you give me a direct link to it?  Also, do you know how big the patch is?

@Blomberg

I don't think they have a firewall installed yet - they (well, me really) were going to install WinXP again as they are having a few problems with it, but I don't have the time to do that just yet.

Edit: just seen Floid's post, very helpfull indeed :-D

Edit2: how do you find out if you have the 32-bit or 64-bit version of XP?  (I think it's Home Edition she has btw)

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@Floid

I'm confident enough to go through the registry to fix this (I've been through a registry before) so I'll hopefully be able to fix it tomorrow.

@KennyR

After applying the patches (which I'm d'ling now) I'll be installing a firewall for her :-D

Edit: I didn't expect to get this many replies this quick !  Cheers guys :-D

[Vincent]

To quote Calen on IRC just now:

[00:39:25] its time like this u love windows even more huh

:lol:

[Vincent]

To further what Blomberg's said, use msconfig to disable it (under startup) and clean the registry - there's one entry for it.

It's in something like:

Local machine:software\microsoft\shared tools\ msconfig\startupreg\mssyslanhelper

edit: if you have Win2k, try to find someone with WinXP and copy their msconfig - it works on Win2k aswell :-)

[Vincent]

It wasn't until about 0:30ish that I discovered that I had actually been infected with this virus aswell.  I had the msmsgri32.exe file.

Thankfully it didn't "work" on my setup.  Now I know first hand how to get rid of it and close the ports I'll be able to easily do it on my cousin's CP setup :-D

I'm not promoting this hacker in anyway, but I do agree with his message:

"billy gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software!"

Too true! :-D

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@Calen

I don't think "fun" is the word I'd use :-P

@Elektro

Probing backdoors eh?  We'll just leave you to do that :-D

[Vincent]

_LinchpiN_ wrote:

Dats wot i like to see :-)

Hoping for a bit much there aren't you? :-P

[Vincent]

I've sorted the problem on my cousin's XP box.  I stopped the MSBlast task in Task Manager, used MSConfig to stop it at startup, the used the FixBlast (or whatever it was called) to get rid of it.  Then after a reboot and checked it was gone I installed XP SP1  and installed Sygate Personal Firewall and set it up to block port 135.

All is done, all is good :-D

.....

until the next time :-x

Cheers for the help :-)

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@Blom

I checked as many ports as I could - all came back Stealthed :-D

@Doobrey

That sucks.  Good job they've got someone who know a thing or two ;-)

A 32Meg download on dial-up should take only 3 hours, mind you, this is the official "Windows Update" bollocks running so you've to expect some lagging, but double the time?  That's really bad.

That two hour limit - they aren't on BTOpenworld are they?  If so, tell them to check out Telewest.  Line rental is £10 a month and unlimited dial-up is an extra £13 on that (less a quid or two if paying by direct debit).  I've only been unable to connect 4 times at most in about 18 months.  Each time the problems have been solved in a few hours.

EDIT: just remembered that the Windows "Time Remaining" crap is *never* right so that 6 1/2 hours is total balls :-D

EDIT2: Blom, installed the Win2kSP4 on my machine (after the IE6SP1) a few hours ago and everything seems to be fine so far *knocks wood* :-D
Guess I'll really find out when I wake up tomorrow :-P

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mdma wrote:

150k broadband + Digital TV Box + Telephone Line Rental with free local calls from NTL is £26 a month.

:-o

Pity I can't get NTL here :-(