[rescue] Fair Warning RPC Worm

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Aug 11 18:29:49 CDT 2003


On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 05:32 PM, Michael A. Turner wrote:
> 	To let everyone know. There is now an RPC worm running against
> windows. We are seeing it here already. It crashes Windows 2000 
> svchost and
> Cause two different errors on Windows XP. Take a peek at slashdot for
> running comentary on it and links to better articles.
> 	Just trying to save you guiys some time from phone calls tonight.
> Looks like a bad one. Started about 4 hours ago. So anything doing 
> with RPC
> services you now have an answer to what is going on.

   Mmmmm, Windows!  What wonderful production-quality software.

       -Dave

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