Solved "RPC Virus virus" message in action center?

[AndarielHalo]

I've had no problem with my computer in the past two days, yet I see an action center message today, supposedly from yesterday, warning me that "This problem was caused by the RPC virus, a known computer virus" and no further information.


Since I've gotten no notification from my usual antivirus/antimalware sources, this seems like a scam or a false positive of some sort. Is this something normal or should I be concerned?

 

[Gator]

Which "Action Center" is providing the alert?

That doesn't really sound like a Microsoft Alert because of the redundancy of the actual alert.

Have you ran your Virus/Malware software and see what comes up?

 

[AndarielHalo]

It's my real Windows Action Center alert, and I ran Malware Bytes, which found some random spyware file in my temp folder, but nothing else.

 

[Gator]

Not saying you're wrong at all but I just don't see that as a genuine Microsoft warning. I would definitely run some deep scans with your Anti virus and malware software.

 

[AndarielHalo]

This is so ridiculous, I have to update it here...


Turns out the Microsoft Action center had reported me having the RPC Virus, because it found an "RPC.exe" file in my computer... which was a normal program with an executable named "RPC.exe"

 

[Layback Bear]

What do you use a password cracker for?

 

[AndarielHalo]

Idle curiosity--- found some old passworded RARs in My Documents that I'd never seen before

 

[Layback Bear]

Please take rule number 6 under advisement from our Forum Rules.

6) No discussions of hacking someones system, network, password, etc.

http://www.sevenforums.com/misc.php?do=showrules

 

[AndarielHalo]

I wasn't advertising, just reporting what had happened, and what Windows targeted. The case is solved. It was meteors.