Nicholas - Work around for blaster.exe

From: Martyn Green (martyn.surrey_at_virgin.net)
Date: 08/12/03 

Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:14:26 -0700

You need to disable the remote procedure call (RPC)
function as follows:

1) Acess the control panel.
2) Click on administrative tools.
3) Click on services.
4) Scroll down the list until you come to remote
proceudre call.
5) Double click remote procedure call.
6) Click the recover tab
7) Change the first, second and subsequent failures
to "take no action".
8) Click OK and then close the services box and the
control panel box.

Doing this should stop you PC from shutting down. You may
get a dialog box come up instead with a black backgorund.
Click on the X to close this.

You should now be able to download the fix etc without
your PC shutting down every five minutes.

>-----Original Message-----
>I put Nicholas in the subject because he seems to know
>something about this. Anyone else who wants to jump in
>is more than welcome.
>
>A number of people are having the same problem. They
>can't get to the Microsoft site to download the patch,
so
>while you're absolutely correct in your advice, it
>doesn't seem possible. Is there a workaround that will
>get us to Microsoft for the update? Can we reconfigure
>something on the machine that will protect us while we
go
>for the real fix? MS suggests shutting down ports 4444,
>69, and 135 (I've also heard 139 and 445 elsewhere), but
>as usual they don't provide any links to how to do this
>or any substantial explanation of the pros and cons.
>Will this be enough? How do you shut down a port?
>.
>