full-disclosure - The U.S. State Department needs "DCOMbobulator"

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Message-ID: <20030925110156.GA29426@gvr.gvr.org>
From: guido at gvr.org (Guido van Rooij)
Subject: The U.S. State Department needs "DCOMbobulator"

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:48:01PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:12:12 EDT, "Richard M. Smith" <rms@...puterbytesman.com>  said:
> 
> > For most Windows users, I bet that the only time DCOM ever gets used, if
> > at all, is to run worms like MSBlaster and Welchia. 
> 
> Isn't DCOM needed for the WindowsUpdate stuff to work?  Or am I misremembering?

Not that I know of.

-Guido