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Just to give an idea of how these viruses cost businesses money.

Here at our 800 bed hospital. This virus started today on a single PC, probably thru an email attachment. This PC in turn, via the RPC vulnerability, infected Windows Servers running the Patient Clinical Information System. This resulted in the Clinical system being down for several hours. I wish the author of the virus was here waiting for a lab result to identify a deadly illness.

Q:Why weren't the Windows Servers properly patched?
A: Because the software vendor has only tested the code on an earlier Service Pack version and will not support servers with the patch!

I know viruses cost money - so does the effort to *not* get viruses. On another related note: there are some email attachments that should *never* be allowed. Exes are among them.

Will your vendor support getting the virus off your infected systems?

How does one get this virus?

My son has Windows XP and he keeps getting this error ten minutes into being online. It shuts down his computer.

"Generic Host Process for Win32 has encountered a problem and needs to close.

Remote Procedure Call (RPC)service terminated unexpectantly."

Can someone please help?