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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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The Bright Side of Blaster 2003-08-15
Anonymous
If Microsoft had not designed Windows to restart when the RPC DCOM module crach, the majority of Windows users would not have noticed the worm at all and would there for not have patched their systems. And the cleaning effect of Blaster would have been minimal....

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