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by jake

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I am currenty using a "acer" lap-top and have had to reinstall a new opporating system 5 times in the last 2 months, I am currenty running XP this time.but have had 2000 and 98 all with these problems...after my re-install and reformat only a day or so later i start to have issues with my RPC server ..well at least that is what it tells me then and has to restart, i have adjusted those propertys to stop that just to type out this message but..then it evolves to error mesages to microsoft..then i start to have problems sending mail saying that my memory is full .. and it is not!..there have been problems at start up saying "bad clusters" being repaired ect. I am sure that it must be some kind of virus that has found it's way into here and it can't be removed by reformating... i don't know ... please someone tell me I am wrong and that there is some kind of reason for this that i can fix.. it's getting to expensive and time consuming ..i am about to leave the computer era in a cloud of dust
Jake

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by joseph moore

Sounds like you have multiple problems here.
Bad Clusters on a drive means the hard drive itself is going bad. You should get a new drive.

And the RPC service failing is the Blaster virus (or one of its variants like the Welchia virus). You need to patch Windows after you install it. And it will take 6 rounds of patch/reboot to get it up to date.
After that, you need to check for new patches monthly to keep it up to date.

Read this about Blaster:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

hope this helps

by curacao_dejavu

the rpc message is most likely regarding the welchia virus.
the mail message could be caused by another virus.
The soultion is to use a bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com, use the win98 bootable disk (of course do this on a clean computer, and create the bootdisk.
Start your computer with the win98 bootdisk and use the fdisk command, to delete the partitions on your laptop.
Now install windows XP (xp has a built in firewall). Turn this on before you access the internet in anyway (selectyour internet connection, go to options, then advance , and protect your computer from the internet.
Now install your antivirus, do a full scan for viruses, install the updates for windowsxp via www.windowsupdate.com.
Do a full scan again, and your are done with the virus thing.
Then do a scan on your harddisk for bad clusters, if you still have bad clusters then the harddisk is indeed becoming bad, and you will have to replace it.

Leopold

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