I am a university student in China mainland, we connect to the internet via firewall of our university. in the recent days, many computers in local network were attacked by hackers using RPC vulnerability. PCs which were attacked reboot without any reason. Some displayed "scvhost.exe runtime error! The computer is going to shutdown within 60 seconds..."
Someone told to run Dcomcnfg.exe, and disable "Windows Distributed Component Object Model " would be help. I was wondering why? and if that really works. For I have installed the patch for Windows XP, so I can't check it myself.
ps: It is the first time to post reply on slashdot.org.:)
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Not yet! The situation is getting worse now. CCERT predict that about 90% PC user would be hitten
It seems that it had caused a worldwide panic!
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I am a university student in China mainland, we connect to the internet via firewall of our university. in the recent days, many computers in local network were attacked by hackers using RPC vulnerability. PCs which were attacked reboot without any reason. Some displayed "scvhost.exe runtime error! The computer is going to shutdown within 60 seconds..."
Someone told to run Dcomcnfg.exe, and disable "Windows Distributed Component Object Model " would be help. I was wondering why? and if that really works. For I have installed the patch for Windows XP, so I can't check it myself.
ps: It is the first time to post reply on slashdot.org.