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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 2003-08-13
BroadBand Man
Didn't affect two Internet connected computers running Windows XP - with XP included Firewalling turned on. This allowed me to work through about 1/2 day Monday before patching the first, and to go home later and patch the second one.

The quickest I saw a BroadBand customer get infected was about...

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