hi all

Im trying to fix a computer for a friend. he was not running an AV program
or a firewall or anti-spyware.

His PC was in such a bad stae that i formatted and re-installed windows xp.
however, the PC now (after about 2 minutes of operation) gives me a box
saying that either LSA shell (export version) or RPC service has
unexpectedly terminated and it then counts down and reboots. I dont know
why it is doing this or what is causing it. if anyone can give me any
pointers, i wil be verry gratefull. At the moment this has me stumped and
short of pulling the PC apart to testing for faulty hardware i dont know
what to do.

thanks in advance
combrains

Trojan's cause this ... the latest is sasser. Fixed 2 systems today
infected with this one.

combrains wrote:
>
> hi all
>
> Im trying to fix a computer for a friend. he was not running an AV program
> or a firewall or anti-spyware.
>
> His PC was in such a bad stae that i formatted and re-installed windows xp.
> however, the PC now (after about 2 minutes of operation) gives me a box
> saying that either LSA shell (export version) or RPC service has
> unexpectedly terminated and it then counts down and reboots. I dont know
> why it is doing this or what is causing it. if anyone can give me any
> pointers, i wil be verry gratefull. At the moment this has me stumped and
> short of pulling the PC apart to testing for faulty hardware i dont know
> what to do.
>
> thanks in advance
> combrains

Trojan's cause this ... the latest is sasser. Fixed 2 systems today
infected with this one.

combrains wrote:
>
> hi all
>
> Im trying to fix a computer for a friend. he was not running an AV program
> or a firewall or anti-spyware.
>
> His PC was in such a bad stae that i formatted and re-installed windows xp.
> however, the PC now (after about 2 minutes of operation) gives me a box
> saying that either LSA shell (export version) or RPC service has
> unexpectedly terminated and it then counts down and reboots. I dont know
> why it is doing this or what is causing it. if anyone can give me any
> pointers, i wil be verry gratefull. At the moment this has me stumped and
> short of pulling the PC apart to testing for faulty hardware i dont know
> what to do.
>
> thanks in advance
> combrains

thanks. I did some reading and found that it was caused by the blaster
worm. I managed to keep the thing up (somehow) for long enough to a scan
with NAV. I found he had sasser.B and the blaster worm as well as three
others.

Thanks anyway
combrains

thanks. I did some reading and found that it was caused by the blaster
worm. I managed to keep the thing up (somehow) for long enough to a scan
with NAV. I found he had sasser.B and the blaster worm as well as three
others.

Thanks anyway
combrains