XP Pro 5.1 2600
650mb Kingston DDR
Athlon xp 1800 @ 1.53ghz
ecs K7s5a mobo
40gb C:, 60GB D: (not installed)
52x cdrw
16x dvdrom
Every few minutes (it varies) i get the following error message:
The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 60000 milliseconds: Reboot the machine.
The above text was copied from Event Viewer.
It always says "1 time(s)" but it has happened about 20. This just started happening within the last couple of days. I am running PC Cillin and it's up to date. It doesn't detect anything. Also, I have no suspicious connections to my pc. I also use Spybot regularly.
I uninstalled all software I recently installed to see if maybe one of them was causing the error.
Here are a couple of screenshots of the original error:
Error box (cropped - 67KB) |
Error Box & Task Manager (cropped - 160KB)
I have searched for info on this error, but didn't find much at all. If anyone has any suggestions or tips to offer, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE:I got that same error a few minutes ago, and my machine rebooted. When i came and noticed, I saw a "Disconnected Network Drive" as my N: drive. I also had 2 connections to my PC on ports 445 and also 40450 from 2 different IPs. I did a "ipconfig /release" to disconnect whatever was connected to my machine. As soon as I did this, I got that RPC error.
Also, I had what appeared to be a trojan of some sort recently. It
didn't let me open task manager, msconfig or regedit. I got rid of
that, but is it possible this is related? I am getting pretty concerned now.