[rescue] Fair Warning RPC Worm

Daniel de Young daniel at velvetsea.com
Mon Aug 11 16:42:41 CDT 2003


On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 14:32, 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.

Patching my various clients for this is how I'm eating this month!

-Daniel



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