I hope I get an answer to this! I have RPCSS on my PC can I delete it? Or is it suppose to be there? It say's it a window system file! Someone please answer! Juanita > > It's a Remote Procedure Call.. Everything about it is here > > http://www.cexx.org/rpc.htm > > > > Dave Jones > > http://www.airmemories.com > > http://www.fwbac.com > > > > > I keep having a problem with this file. It keeps trying to > > > access the internet and identifies itself on my firewall as > > > "Distributed COM Services." > > > I think the most telling point on that page is the second from the bottom: > > > What could an exploit using rpcss.exe do? On Windows 9x, if the author > > could plant a program that registers itself with the portmapper > > (rpcss.exe) and communicate with it remotely, it would have unlimited > > access to the machine. In other words, you'd have a full-blown Trojan > > horse on your hands, albeit one that would be very easy to detect. > > Note that the only reason this program would be trying to access the Internet is > that something on the machine that uses it has asked it to do so. If you don't > know what asked, or why, then I would not allow the communication to proceed, and > I'd investigate to try to determine what client program has asked for it, and why. > > David Gillett > > "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware > programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column. > http://freepctech.com/rode "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column. http://freepctech.com/rode