A new DCOM worm ....

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-08-18 02:22pm

For those of you who haven't patched your machines yet, there is a new worm going around that exploits this vulnerability. However, it actually patches your machine and then self-destructs on 1 January 2004.

NAI Link

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-08-18 02:32pm

phongn wrote:For those of you who haven't patched your machines yet, there is a new worm going around that exploits this vulnerability. However, it actually patches your machine and then self-destructs on 1 January 2004.

NAI Link

...I can't help but think that whoever made this is trying to fix the problem...

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-08-18 02:47pm

LMFAO!!!!!

I've seen those kinds of worms before too. Still hilarious.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2003-08-18 03:09pm

Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that I have a copy of XP I didn't pay for, how am I supposed to update?

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-08-18 03:24pm

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that I have a copy of XP I didn't pay for, how am I supposed to update?

You can still download the updates, just not the service packs. Or at least that's what friend x with an illegal copy tells me.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-08-18 03:25pm

Still a worm and still very illegal!

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-08-18 03:29pm

Go to Windows Update and patch. There are also methods to change your VLK so that you might apply SP1, but they will not be mentioned here.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-08-18 05:38pm

phongn wrote:Go to Windows Update and patch. There are also methods to change your VLK so that you might apply SP1, but they will not be mentioned here.

Not worth it IMO.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-08-18 06:43pm

I like the idea of a worm that patches your system. Its like renegade white-hat virus writing. A kind of rough-and-tumble good guy. An outlaw who tries to do the right thing. A cowboy. A-..

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-08-18 07:49pm

Rye wrote:
Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that I have a copy of XP I didn't pay for, how am I supposed to update?
You can still download the updates, just not the service packs. Or at least that's what friend x with an illegal copy tells me.

That's only because the original serial # was blacklisted.

Sektor31 · Post by **Sektor31** » 2003-08-18 11:33pm

Well this is intriguing, a virus writer who writes a viral antivirus...

Now only if we had more of these virii, then cyberspace would be a better place.

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