More on RPC Service shutting down

From Lockergnome Bytes:

It seems as though the latest Windows vulnerability has crashed and rebooted many computers. My E-Mail has been flooded with help requests. If anyone has been plagued by the Remote Procedure Call service “automatically” rebooting their computer, here is helpful information I discovered. (Meryl)

I checked my D-Link DI-624’s log and find I’m getting lots of attacks, which it’s stopping (not that it would have any effect on my mac, thanfully). The entries look like this:

Aug/11/2003 19:49:59

Drop TCP packet from WAN

xx.xx.xx.xx:1417

yy.yy.yy.yy:135

Rule: Default deny

Aug/11/2003 19:46:42

Drop UDP packet from WAN

xx.xx.xx.xx:30099

yy.yy.yy.yy:135

Rule: Default deny