How fatal is "fatal"? -- Two persistent log errors, help please

Greetings,

I have been finding these two errors in my log and don't know what action -- if any -- I should be taking to fix. I don't know how serious these are. The information that I find online is not clear to me at all -- sometimes sounds dangerous, sometimes not.

The following error has shown up for about six-months, first sporadically, now usually once per day. Seems to occur after the first time that the computer wakes from sleep-mode.

Code:

Description: The server {E579AB5F-1CC4-44B4-BED9-DE0991FF0623} did not 
register with DCOM within the required timeout. 
Source: Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Event ID: 10010

And the following error has shown up since last October. Occurs maybe once every few days with no associated task than I can discover.

Code:

 
Description: The following fatal alert was received: 40
Source: Schannel
Event ID: 36887

I am especially confused by the information I have found on the last one. Including in this discussion on Sevenforums: Microsoft warns of problems with Schannel security update . I update Windows regularly but don't find the questionable update among my listed updates. And my computer isn't a "server," just a desk-top home work-station running Win-7 Pro, 64-bit.

I've seen one "fix" involving "deleting ciphers:" Microsoft MS14-066: SChannel Security Update Fixes Vulnarabillity, Causes Instability | SensorsTechForum.com But I don't even know what that means, and I probably don't want to try it.

The phrase "Fatal alert" has a definite attention-focusing quality to it. But, I've had no crashes and no obvious performance problems (other than some startup issues that I hope to address in another thread).

Advice greatly appreciated. Many thanks, in advance.

(Log-files below, in case it might be useful.)

Code:

 
 
Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Date:          1/19/2015 7:06:44 AM
Event ID:      10010
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      AcerOne-05-2013
Description:
The server {E579AB5F-1CC4-44B4-BED9-DE0991FF0623} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM" Guid="{1B562E86-B7AA-4131-BADC-B6F3A001407E}" EventSourceName="DCOM" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">10010</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-01-19T15:06:44.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>173166</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>AcerOne-05-2013</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="param1">{E579AB5F-1CC4-44B4-BED9-DE0991FF0623}</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>
____________________________________________________________________
 
Log Name:      System
Source:        Schannel
Date:          1/19/2015 2:05:50 PM
Event ID:      36887
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      AcerOne-05-2013
Description:
The following fatal alert was received: 40.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Schannel" Guid="{1F678132-5938-4686-9FDC-C8FF68F15C85}" />
    <EventID>36887</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-01-19T22:05:50.991516100Z" />
    <EventRecordID>173273</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="684" ThreadID="736" />
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>AcerOne-05-2013</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="AlertDesc">40</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Tookeri, thank you for the information. The Wikipedia article told me a lot more than I knew.

I regularly save restore-points and make system-images for backup. I have never received any errors in the process. It has been a while since I used system-restore, but it worked fine then. Unless there is some way to check, I guess I'll just have to assume those things are working for the moment.

One (more!) thing I don't understand, and maybe someone can educate me, it why the error refers to a "server" that did not registered. The computer in question is a stand-alone, not-networked machine. It is wire-connected to a router. Where is the "server" in this situation? (I admit my knowledge of "networks" and ''servers" is very limited.)

On the second error, I will start to keep my own log to see if the error is associated with any particular web sites. And I've been intending to set up Firefox -- will look into it further.)

Thanks much.

Tookeri, thanks once again. Your research and thoughts are much appreciated.

Your linked articles mention DCOM as a possible entry point for worms, so that might be reason enough to disable if it's unneeded -- which seems likely in my case.

Sounds like I should consider the word "server" in a wider sense than I have been.

Cheers!

Layback: I Will update my specs. Thanks for bringing to my attention.

Tookeri: I try to be cautious -- if I have doubts, or if I can't see any big reason to make changes, I'm totally happy to leave things as they were. I'm just going to assume the DCOM error is a non-problem for now. (Seems like everytime I try to learn something new about how computers work, I discover three additional things I need to understand first!!)