RPC DCOM Worm On The Loose

GPez writes "The first of I'm sure many RPC DCOM worms affecting Windows is on its way, according to the Internet Storm Center. Patch those systems!" According to the site, "The worm uses the RPC DCOM vulnerability [affects Win2k through Server 2003] to propagate. Once it finds a vulnerable system, it will spawn a shell on port 4444 and use it to download the actual worm via tftp."

Comments

Devastating worm?

[Anonymous Coward]

I almost wish someone would make a worm that destroyed all the data it could. (Write random data to the partition table?) This would a: make people start to patch their systems, and b: wake people up to the fact that Microsoft isn't so great. (I know that all OSes have problems.)
Of course, I don't actually advocate someone making a worm like this - that would be illegal.

Re:Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

I wish. Those fuckers are eating up my precious bandwidth with their stupidity.

Wow

[Foolhardy]

Wow, slashdot (the editors) is putting way more emphasis on serious bugs in Windows than Linux, *bsd, or anything else. I hope that non-Windows users don't depend on /. for security issues.

Re:worm worm who's got the worm?

[mmuskratt]

yeah, then we'd be patching up a BSD-based OS...and the mac heads would all be wondering why their fuzzy little computers have that question mark on the screen...