Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 07:13:24 08/12/03
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On August 11, 2003 at 21:07:58, C McClain Morris, Jr. wrote: >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. Exactly the same here. I even reinstalled the Windows OS, but as soon as I connect to the internet, that message appears together with countdown for shut down, so it seems that it is an ISP issue (also infected?!)
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