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by cbocciolatt

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When I logged onto my server this morning, I received this error message:
"Data Execution Prevention - Microsoft Windows.
To help protect your computer, Windows has closed this program.
Name: Remote Procedure Call host Executable. Publisher: Network Associates, Inc."
It then gave me options to either change settings or close. I didn't touch the settings, but I know I can find them in the Control Panel under System - Advanced Tab - Performance. I chose the close option then an error came up saying it had to close the RPC host executable. I checked the RPC services and saw that it is still started on running.

I'm not sure what I should do from here. Should I be worried about some kind of virus? I also saw an application error in the event logs saying "faulting application RCPServ.exe".

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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by pwegner

Did you resolve this issue? We are getting the same error and have checked our McAfee but it seems to be fine. Any help that you received may help us, too. Thanks.

by cbocciolatt

From everything I have found, it seemed that it was just a case of some parts of McAfee failing to initialize when the services started. I had received 2 McAfee errors right after that RPC error and this had occurred immediately after a reboot of our server. I have not seen these errors since, but I have kept a close eye on McAfee and the RPC services.

My best guess is that it just got hung up a bit after the reboot and wasn't ready to start scanning items yet, causing it to error out.

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