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
>
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