no start bar or task manager

[Anddos]

just reformatted due to messed up files and rebooting my machine after about 5 mins saying something about rpc
so now ive done a format and i have no start bar

[sja360]

its to do with BT mate,
i just been fittin a BT broadband in, and it came up with RPC shutdown, 1:00 minute remains, so i then eventually tried the firewall, bingo! it did the trick
p.s. it was the xp built in firewall

[pmk24]

what OS are you running? have you applyed the latest SP? created a new user account?

[Anddos]

dam ive had to reinstall
didnt know it was the firewall for xp
it really was annoying cause u hardly had chance to type stuff on here beofre it shuts down so i thought - - - it
and reformat again

[Anddos]

its to do with BT mate,
i just been fittin a BT broadband in, and it came up with RPC shutdown, 1:00 minute remains, so i then eventually tried the firewall, bingo! it did the trick
p.s. it was the xp built in firewall

mine is disabled for the xp firewall
if i isntall zone alarm will that block it?
its doing my heading rebooting all the time

[WoLFe]

no its not...its a rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishing virus! i reinstalled windows and my task barr has gone as well. rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishing grrr i'm well pissed off

[chrisf6969]

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/viru...WORM_MSBLAST.A

[TiG]

Its not a virus, its a security vunerability within XP.

There is another thread over in software forums that details fixes for it.

Its not limited to BT either, its a worldwide issue.

TiG

[WoLFe]

oh yeah? whys macafee telling me its a virus called BLAST.EXE?

[WoLFe]

Originally posted by chrisf6969
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/viru...WORM_MSBLAST.A

i can't open that link, or copy and paste it....or use smilys :S

[Knoxville]

Originally posted by WoLFe
oh yeah? whys macafee telling me its a virus called BLAST.EXE?

Just because you have a virus doesn't mean that the virus is causing the problem you speak of, some viruses are next to harmless.

[WoLFe]

Originally posted by Knoxville
Just because you have a virus doesn't mean that the virus is causing the problem you speak of, some viruses are next to harmless.

well, i'm having troublr getting rid of MSBLAST.EXE

[leon]

Symantec have a removal tool http://securityresponse.symantec.com...r/FixBlast.exe

Might be worth giving that a go. Don't forget to take a look at the instructions http://securityresponse.symantec.com...ster.worm.html

[Ceryndrion]

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-026

Had that problem yesterday, it's a DCOM problem that causes an overflow in the RPC

The link above provides the official patch for it.

Damn them script kiddies..

If you have problems getting to it due to the RPC problem, make sure you have a firewall running

[chrisf6969]

http://securityresponse.symantec.com...ster.worm.html

infect computers scanning yours are causing buffer errors, and/or your computers are infected. Get the patch from MS or the removal tool from symantec!!!

[joshwa]

have a look at this other thread as well :

http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?threadid=1477