Gail Shaw wrote:
> "Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
> news:47617baa$1@news.povray.org...
>>>> What, you mean like if you turned RPC off? :-}
>>> Huh?
>> Turning RPC off reputedly causes Windoze-based PCs to malfunction to the
>> point of being unuseable. Great if you want to close this large security
>> hole...
>>
> 
> It's not that large a security hole. Unless you fiddle with the default
> security, it's remote process communication on your own machine.
> 
> RPC is used by various processes of windows to communicate with each other

Depends on your definition of "large".

As I understand it, anybody who can guess what your admin password is 
can have unlimited access to your PC via RPC. Nice...

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