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This happened once yesterday, didn't concern me, but today it's done it like 4 times.

I was browsing the internet when this little box popped up wuthout any warning, counted down to zero and shut the computer down.

What's going on?

Thanks

I guess they have decided that you had spent too much time online?

Not sure what to tell ya,

Jared

Sounds to me you may have a remote control hacker trojan horse. This type of virus allows hackers to remotely control any function of your computer. Do a full virus scan and if you don't have one, you may wish to purchase a third party firewall like Norton Internet Security.

I'm using Zone Alarm, which IS a firewall. It's so effective that It won't allow access to a lot of websites...

But I probably shut it off to to view a website

Anybody who knows your IP or NetBIOS name can shut you down like that,I'm not sure where that came from,but,as you can see it tells you who initiated it.'NT AUTHORITY' is the system's name and 'SYSTEM' is the user account that was logged in that did it.Be grateful,they are giving you a minute to close all your stuff,by default you get 10 seconds.lol.
If you want to see what it does,go to your command line (type 'cmd' in the 'run' box) or create a new shortcut and enter 'shutdown -t 10 -s' (the 10 is the amount of seconds you have time you have until it's going to shut down so you can change that accordingly).

It was that bloody lovsan worm

But for the life of me I can't figure out how it got onto my system

I don't even ever run e-mails attachments

For some reason my firewall wasn't allowing my anti-virus program to automatically update it's virus description, but It's now updated and back in business.

Well good to hear that you were able to get it straightened out!

Jared

Sorry to be very mean, but you are all wrong if I am not very much mistaken. The RPC, Remote Procedure Call , is a part of XP that manages automated computer management tasks. This error will come up if the program crashes, is overloaded, or you closed it accidentally through Task Manager. It really is nothing to worry about, just let your computer restart.

I've had it a few times, nothing to worry about, really  ;).

Jonathan

No Offense, but your only partially correct.

I can open the task manager and shut certain processes down, and the same thing will happen.

BUT, the problem I had was whenever I shut my firewall down, that would happen on it's own by itself, without any interaction from me.

And it was the lovesan worm/virus that I deleted off my system.

But now I've got my antivirus scheduled to do a complete scan everynight, and I NEVER shut my firewall down. It's just too risky out there, especially since I don't install any security updates for WinXP

Righto, I don't know where I heard that, but it seems to have stuck . I as I said have had this problem, but only, as you say, when I accidentally stop the system RPC service.