Re: future happenings..

[Joey <joey2cool () yahoo com>]

nope :)
I not only used the patch i disabled DCOM completely.
My ISP has also blocked port 135 on their side for
everyone else in their network that hasnt. But not the
rest of the world.
http://www6.sans.org/attack_map2003-08-11.png

If everyone's computers are being restarted and
they'll hear on the news about it then they'll apply
the patch faster. If one is released that erases their
harddrives, it would be doomsday for p2p apps, virus
scanners(possibly) and microsoft.

New installs of windows xp/2000 will still have the
bug unless you slipstream the next service pack, but
that would be less people as most home users let their
computers go for years and years without reinstalls.

I think this current worm was very sloppy and a very
stupid purpose(DDoSing windowsupdate.com). That might
be able to stop people from going to the windows
update site, but it would also slow other worms from
propagating, including the msblast worm.

--- Kalleth <kalleth () nildram co uk> wrote:
> Just reading through how easily this worm
> (RPC/DCOM/MSBlast) is spreading,
> and how widespread it is, and the potential number
> of infected systems - do
> some of you lot think its feasible that sometime in
> the future someone will
> release a worm that DOES completely wipe the hard
> disks or do something
> equally nasty to its host AFTER sending itself on to
> 'x' recipients? a worm
> like that, although i'm hardly qualified to give an
> opinion, could seriously
> affect a very large quantity of home users - the
> majority of whom never
> bother updating their OS from the day its installed
> from the CD.
> Myself, i find a worm that is able to spread this
> easily as
> rather..disturbing.
> Does anyone else predict (drum roll and overreacting
> music please..) a
> "doomsday" where nearly every PC running windows
> (which, lets face it, is
> the predominant OS out there at the moment) thats
> connected to the internet
> gets taken offline, hard drives wiped? information
> loss would be terrible ;p
>
> thoughts?
>
> Tom Russell.

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