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The Bright Side of Blaster
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-08-14

The Blaster worm has infected hundreds of thousands of Windows machines, shut down the Maryland state DMV, put network administrators on overtime, crashed countless consumer's home computers, and on Saturday it will attempt a denial-of-service attack on Microsoft's Windows Update site. But that doesn't make it all bad.

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I believe Comcast might be doing exactly this. I have yet to see Packet #1 hit my firewall at port 135 from my Comcast Cable modem. I consider myself lucky, but if they are responsible I'm grateful.

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