RE: ISS Security Brief: "MS Blast" MSRPC DCOM Worm Propagation (fwd)

[Joey <joey2cool () yahoo com>]

svchost.exe listens on several ports on windows xp.
If microsoft is saying that it should never be on the
internet, couldn't there be more b0f's discovered in
the future? One peculiar service "DNS Client",
although listening on a few random ports just about
1024, also runs off of svchost.exe.

--- Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:
> They cannot do _any business whatsoever_ if they
> cannot expose a  pile 
> of crap like MS RPC to the Internet?  Code that MS
> now openly admits 
> should never be exposed to "hostile environments"? 
> Who was responsible 
> for such horrendous mis-design?

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