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

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From: prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk (Randal, Phil)
Subject: RE: Probable new MS DCOM RPC worm for Windo
	 ws

Why not?  Easy enough to check in a login script if you're using something
like Kixtart (www.kixtart.org).

Cheers,

Phil

---------------------------------------------
Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schmehl, Paul L [mailto:pauls@...allas.edu]
> Sent: 26 September 2003 15:33
> To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Probable new MS DCOM RPC worm for
> Windo ws
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Flynn [mailto:flynngn@....edu] 
> > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 8:06 AM
> > To: 'full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com'
> > Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Probable new MS DCOM RPC 
> > worm for Windo ws
> > 
> > 
> > I would think a better way of determining if a patch is 
> > actually installed on a system is by examining the files on 
> > the system rather than to depend upon symptoms (scanners) or 
> > installation logs (registry entries).
> 
> True, but *I'm* not going to physically touch (or even 
> virtually touch)
> 2000+ machines looking at file properties.  Are you?
> 
> Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
> Adjunct Information Security Officer
> The University of Texas at Dallas
> AVIEN Founding Member
> http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ 
> 
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