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recent RPC/DCOM worm thought
From: "Eichert, Diana" <deicher () sandia gov>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 06:42:03 -0600
I've been thinking about how "poorly" this worm was written and how it really wasn't very malicious, just very time consuming, forcing people/companies to install patches to their systems. Now here's an alternative thought about it. What if "someone" purposely wrote this worm to get the attention of people to patch their systems, not to DOS the mickeysoft upgrade site. If they really wanted to create a DOS against a website they wouldn't have postponed it for 4 days. That's a long time in today's world. I mean if you were mickeysoft and there was a known security hole wouldn't it be in you best interest to have the first real exploit of it be relatively benign? It gets everyone's attention and they are forced to install the latest security patch. anyway, my US$.02 worth _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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