i just had an ordeal trying to figure out why i got this message claiming an RPC error... it effectively hindered me beeing online for more than a few minutes at a time. i figured it out eventually a few hours ago, but it did require a bit of fiddling around. my first thoughts after fixing this jam was to give off a rant here that was filled with words one does not normaly utter unless in despair. but i've cooled now. suffice to say: any virus makers and adbot fuckers oughta have a long and very painfull death. but now i'm allright. plugged my holes, updated my virus checker and did some housekeeping. but to get that far, i first needed to be able to actually stay online for more than two minutes without suffering a system shutdown. here is the trick: open start menu, select run, type "services.msc /s" and find the RPC component. right click, and select properties. then, instead of the default "shut down" select "no action" for all instances. log on the net, get fixes and patches and whatnot. reboot, and put the RPC settings back to their default "system shutdown" setting. and bob's your' uncle, problem solved, and the rate of pop-ups even takes a nose dive.
well to tell the truth, bob is actually my great uncle, but i still lost you just after open start menu. hehe.
lmao yes, i thought you might get that one wrong. silly me, i forgot to explicitly mention that you should left click the start icon at the bottom left of your screen...
goto http://www.it.utep.edu/wksupport/patches.html and find the correct patches for both win2k and xp, you'll also find them at microsoft, but you'd have to search around a bit. as for the RPC component you want to *temporarily* shut down is called "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)" *not* "Remote Procedure Call (RPC) locator" doing a regclean and an adaware sweep is also a good idea. strengthen security with the firewall is also good. i use tiny personal firewall, pretty good and very free. and updating your antivirus software with the newest definitions is a must. good luck