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RPC DCOM Worm Hits the Net
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-08-11

A malicious worm that exploits last month's RPC DCOM vulnerability struck the Internet Monday afternoon, targeting unpatched Windows 2000 and Windows XP machines.

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RPC DCOM Worm Hits the Net 2003-08-12
Anonymous
A person in our company got hit with a variant, which operated in a similar manner to msblaster at noon PDT, but it installed the executable smsx.exe instead of msblaster.exe. It was much harder to deal with as it detected attempts to apply the fix from microsoft or install Norton AntiVirus and reb...

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