Author: C McClain Morris, Jr.
Date: 18:07:58 08/11/03
I was greeted by a remote procedure call failure while playing a Shredder 7.04 comp on the playchess.com server today. I was using the Fritz 7 engine in a 3 minute + 2 blitz game and upon the start of the game the Shredder 7.04 opponent failed to make a move for the 2 minutes. All of a sudden I was greeted with a "Remote Procedure Call has unexpectly shut down, Windows will shut down in 45 seconds" and the countdown began. From that point on, each time connected to the net, I would receive the same rpc message and windows shuts down and restarts again. This was the first time I had experienced a DOS attack and I noticed that I had an executable running the the name of msblast.exe. It was found in c:\windows\system32. After deleting it, it continued to appear after the rpc shutdowns. I would appreciate some feedback regarding the possiblity of running code on a computer, while playing another comp on the playchess server. My system was virus and trojan free before playing on the playchess server. Is it possible to get code run on your computer if you are playing another engine on playchess.com? Any expert feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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