very irritating problem

[megah0]

I have XP home, fully sp2'd up with all the patches etc.

Whenever i run AdawareSE i get the same RPC shutdown box as the blaster worm.

I have Panda platinum AV with firewall.

shutdown -a doesn't work

as long as i do not run adaware its all fine, i can run an AV scan no probs.

tearing my hair our now

[CrapshoT]

I use that as well m8 and when ive done a sweep, I get the same box but my pc does shut down and restart with no problems.Try downloading it again and do a fresh install.

[dshepsman]

have you tried using spybot? does the same as ad-aware.
i usually run one after the other if there is anything one cant get rid of

[PopUpPirate]

Click Start > Run. (The Run dialog box appears.)

Type:

SERVICES.MSC /S

in the open line, and then click OK. (The Services window opens.)

In the right pane, locate the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service.

CAUTION: A service named Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator exists. Do not confuse the two.

Right-click the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service, and then click Properties.

Click the Recovery tab.

Using the drop-down lists, change First failure, Second failure, and Subsequent failures to "Restart the Service."

Click Apply, and then click OK.

ALSO - try running HijackThis.