full-disclosure - recent RPC/DCOM worm thought

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Message-ID: <6130FAF67D15D411BF7100E01899071F5F9A3B@stork.mightyoaks.local>
From: david.vincent at mightyoaks.com (David Vincent)
Subject: recent RPC/DCOM worm thought

> If Microsoft were as evil an empire as they are perceived to be, then
> wouldn't they already have the backdoor to your system to apply the
> patch anyway?  If so then why go throught the pain in the ass 
> to write a
> shotty worm and draw bad publicity to the company?

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