RPC Failiure Not Blaster or Sasser or Variant

[Desthro]

I have been recieving the NT System Authority Shutdown error
because of an RPC Failiure. First I thought it was Blaster, but I
was running SP2 and always had a firewall going, (I use NVIDIA
firewall.) Then I did some searching and found out about Sasser
and how it could do the same thing. I downloaded, Stinger, AVG
and used the free virus detect at symantec.com and
antivirus.com as well as Windows Malicious Software Removal
Tool (god, did they have to make that huge name for it?) They
all were running current virus definitions and they found nothing.
Nada. The crash primarily occurs when I start a new process
that is an internet application. AOL, IE, Firefox, etc. So I am
thinking it is some sort of virus. I checked the firewall log this
morning, and it has been blocking traffic from 192.168.0.1:1900
UDP (my D-Link router address) to 239.255.255.255:1900 UDP
(the upper end of the open UDP range) There are some 100000
instances of port blocking at that address, and I don't know if
that is the problem or not, or if it is just routine blocking. What
else could cause an RPC Failiure besides those two viruses and
the multitudes of variants? I appreciate your input. There is
another thread here in this forum about this,
https://www.techspot.com/vb/archive/index/t-8147.html
but it degenerated into a talk about blaster and sasser. Anyway, Help!

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Clich Start/Run and type in services.msc and hit OK
check if your RPC services are enabled and running. If not, doubleclick it, click Start and set to 'Automatic'. Also check the dependencies, another service might be off as well.

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Could be just Windows' own firewall crashing, or its plugin service, "Application Layer Gateway Service".

Contrary to what people here say, I've never had problems accessing the Internet with it disabled.

Port 1900 is Messenger, turn it off. Disable it. It's just a security risk these days. If you need to send / receive instant messages, use MSN / ICQ / AIM / whatever instead.

You could also set RPC service so that it wouldn't restart your computer right away, just change the settings in its properties window, Recovery tab (in Services).

 

[Desthro]

Awesome

Thanks, I guess it's nothing to worry about, just a nuisance... I have the messenger service disabled, should it still be trying to go when the service isn't running? Sounds kind of odd. But, other than that, I guess I have to live it it dying once in a while lol.