full-disclosure - RE: Probable new MS DCOM RPC worm for Windows

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From: lists at onryou.com (Cael Abal)
Subject: RE: Probable new MS DCOM RPC worm for Windows

Schmehl, Paul L wrote:

> Oh, things like, you don't have sufficient access rights to check file
> properties.
> 
> I know in the ideal world that every machine logs in to the domain and
> every machine has Domain Admins in the Local Administrator group and
> every machine has the SMS agent (or some similar agent) and reports all
> its properties back to a management console and every machine can be
> controlled remotely, etc., etc., etc., yada, yada, yada.
> 
> I just don't know where that ideal world is.

Hi Paul,

Personally, I'm of the opinion that if a person doesn't have admin privs
on a machine, they shouldn't be expect to *cough* /administrate/ it.

I realize that in a school environment it's not that simple (you can't
really stand by while the worm du jour has its way with your campus
network) but really, the student subnets are virtually guaranteed to be
a wasteland of Mad Max-like proportions no matter what you do, no?
Isn't your only real weapon a set of very enthusiastic edge filters?

Cael