Re: Remote Procedure Call error? DCOMX.EXE, RPC.EXE, RPCTEST.EXE on your computer? Possible hacking.

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (levinson_k_at_despammed.com)
Date: 08/06/03 

Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:03:02 -0400

Thanks for the helpful information.

One small thought... www.grc.com is a helpful site, but there is some
misinformation there, and their Shields Up scan is helpful but not very
thorough. I personally disagree with GRC that Zone Alarm is the best
firewall for everyone, since rating firewalls based solely on ONE feature of
them is not necessarily the best way to do it. I think Sygate and other
firewalls now do the same thing Zone Alarm does. Just my two cents.

"HarryJMK" <harryjmk@home.nl> wrote in message
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"Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <levinson_k@despammed.com> wrote
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[..]
If nothing is detected, that's pretty interesting, let us and your antivirus
company know:
[..]

Hi Karl, great info. As per yr request:

Done and I am completely clean and completely safe, see report below. How?
I've got the free ZoneAlarm v3.7.193 personal firewall installed.
Downloadable from www.download.com. At 1 August they've put the newer
v3.7.202 on the site, so it's still improving... It's the latest predecessor
from the current commercial v4 Pro, see www.powerquest.com for differences.
IMHO it's the best personal firewall available, it's the only FW stopping
Trojan's from the inside, see http://grc.com . Next to that I'm running
Ad-aware v6.0, also very valuable.

The report below does not recognize McAfee Virusscan v4.5.1 SP1, scan engine
v4.2.60, which I have installed, because McAfee is now at a much later
version, and the one I've got is not commercial but from my company license.
So as to viruses I'm completely safe also.

Another tip: check MS Plug'nPlay vulnerability, see
http://grc.com/UnPnP/UnPnP.htm. It's just waiting to happen...

Kind regards, Harry

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