08-05-2003, 04:18 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Oakville, Canada
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Tuesday, July 29th
First Signs of Anticipated
DCOM/RPC Internet Worm
Just several weeks ago Microsoft confessed an extremely serious remotely exploitable vulnerability in all versions of Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. Being called the worst vulnerability in history, this Windows design flaw allows a malicious hacker to remotely inject and run their own code in anyone else's non-patched and non-firewalled Windows system on the Internet.
Despite the fact that the security group who found the flaw deliberately withheld their release of sample exploit code, just two weeks later (a few days ago) versions of exploit code began surfacing on the Internet.
And finally today, firewall log watchers are reporting a dramatic jump in port 135 and cable modem "ARP Broadcast" traffic. Both of these are indicative of Internet worm propagation.
It appears that we have a new worm crawling the Internet, finding and infecting the computers of Windows users worldwide. Once again, many users are at the mercy of Internet hackers, and Microsoft Windows. We can only hope that these worms are interested only in propagating and not in destroying. They could certainly be capable of either, or both.
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Okay, well, it's malicious.. Anyone got a solution for me? 
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