Urban Legend Truth or Fiction
Supposedly written by a former Microsoft employee
As a former employee of Microsoft in the know, I can testify that the Distributed COM (Component Object Model) Services are used to profile product key and other registration data as a future means to enforce software piracy laws that have yet to be adequately enforced at a Federal level.
Microsoft has been compiling a massive database of names, registration codes, product keys, and linking them with data pulled from e-mail addresses stored in Outlook, Outlook Express, etc. as well as the serial numbers that can now be easily obtained from any Pentium-III CPU.
Microsoft has been coordinating their efforts clandestinely with other software manufacturers and predict law enforcement will be to a point where they can finally enforce copyright and anti-piracy laws by around 2005.
Needless to say, anyone who hasn't disabled RPCSS.EXE , has already been added to the database, via data that is encrypted and randomly submitted back to Microsoft upon access of the Internet. Offenders will eventually be notified if any of their software's serial codes or product key numbers match the central database of legitimate codes which there should be no duplicates of.
If you feel this is an invasion of your privacy, you'd better reconsider. You GAVE UP your privacy when you agreed to the EULA at the beginning of the install of all Microsoft products. By voluntarily using Microsoft's copyrighted intellectual property, you give Microsoft the permission to track registration and product key info of its products. Like it, work around it, or leave it.
For a detailed explanation of rpcss.exe plus an an alternate solution to rpcss issues which does not involve removing the rpcss.exe file Go to:
http://www.cexx.org/rpcss.htm[URL]