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Simple question, anyone of you had RPC related problems that lead to reboots this last day? Well they're not your fault but that of a group of hackers that have found a security flaw.

I myself was hit twice before I realized this is not because of me, this XP installation has been stable for over one year, I saw my firewall was not engaged, gah, so on the next reboot I started it up and lo and behold, some whore from IP: 209.86.255.197 trying to send me shit through ports 135-4491.

Get the updates from Microsoft now please, or atleast get a firewall, prefferably both.

Script kiddies, not hackers. These are just 14-year-olds with nothing better to do.

Crayz9000 wrote:Script kiddies, not hackers. These are just 14-year-olds with nothing better to do.

Conceeded

Long since patched, though my firewall at home should be blocking it.

I've been meaning to install a firewall. Can anyone make some good recommendations?

otter wrote:I've been meaning to install a firewall. Can anyone make some good recommendations?

Kerio Personal Firewall and ZoneAlarm are the two top choices.

kerio.com
zonelabs.com

otter wrote:I've been meaning to install a firewall. Can anyone make some good recommendations?

Zone Alarm is freeware. I don't know about the other one Dalton mentioned.

I'll get the update, even though I'm behind not one but two firewalls.

Kerio (it used to be Tiny Personal Firewall version 2) is also freeware, and it's a good sight better than ZoneAlarm.

otter wrote:I've been meaning to install a firewall. Can anyone make some good recommendations?

W2K and WXP have a built-in firewall. Kerio is a good solution if you want to block outgoing stuff.

Dalton wrote:

otter wrote:I've been meaning to install a firewall. Can anyone make some good recommendations?

Kerio Personal Firewall and ZoneAlarm are the two top choices.

kerio.com
zonelabs.com

Thanks for the input.....I go check 'em out

HELP! I did the security update from the Microsoft homepages! It just jacked up my computer more!

It takes like 5 minutes now for me to load up my computer and my taskbar seems locked. I can't unlock it or resize it which means I can't even see it. Driving me insane! Anyone else have this happen to them?

Do an immediate system restore to the last point before the patch was applied and try again. Something went wrong there.

phongn wrote:Do an immediate system restore to the last point before the patch was applied and try again. Something went wrong there.

How do I do that?

Use the Help, it is in there.

phongn wrote:Use the Help, it is in there.

You bastard

Actually, help doesn't work. Almost nothing works but basic browsing ability.

Trytostaydead wrote:

phongn wrote:Use the Help, it is in there.

You bastard

Actually, help doesn't work. Almost nothing works but basic browsing ability.

Control Panel, System, Restore tab, if it will let you do that.

System Restore has nothing in it that says restore. The only option is to turn the settings off or change the max amount of space. I have searched high and low.

Go into Start Menu->Programs->Accessories->System Restore

phongn wrote:Go into Start Menu->Programs->Accessories->System Restore

Unfortunately.. tool bar is unaccessible to me.

His Divine Shadow wrote:Simple question, anyone of you had RPC related problems that lead to reboots this last day? Well they're not your fault but that of a group of hackers that have found a security flaw.

I myself was hit twice before I realized this is not because of me, this XP installation has been stable for over one year, I saw my firewall was not engaged, gah, so on the next reboot I started it up and lo and behold, some whore from IP: 209.86.255.197 trying to send me shit through ports 135-4491.

Get the updates from Microsoft now please, or atleast get a firewall, prefferably both.

It happened to me ... but i fixed the problem ... it was quite annoying. I was woken up by the sound of my computer restarting ... and kept awake by the sound of it restarting. I cant wait til i get linux -_-

Trytostaydead wrote:

phongn wrote:Go into Start Menu->Programs->Accessories->System Restore

Unfortunately.. tool bar is unaccessible to me.

Try Win+R and see if you can get the Run prompt. I don't know what the system restore command is, though.

Run this:

phongn wrote:Run this:

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%SystemRoot%\System32\restore\rstrui.exe 

Yeah, already got someone to tell me that.. does not run either. I'm beginning to suspect I'm going to need to format.. DAMN YOU BILL GATES!

What happens when you try to execute it ?

Something else is wrong with your box if a simple patch caused such catastrophic damage. Have you attempted to reboot into safe mode?

phongn wrote:What happens when you try to execute it ?

Something else is wrong with your box if a simple patch caused such catastrophic damage. Have you attempted to reboot into safe mode?

Tried just about everything.. something is majorly fouled up. Perhaps someone was using more than one security flaw when they were accessing my computer.. who knows.