] A malicious worm that exploits last month's RPC  ] DCOM vulnerability struck the Internet Monday  ] afternoon, targeting unpatched Windows 2000 and  ] Windows XP machines.  ]  ] The worm, dubbed "Blaster" and "LovSan" by security  ] and anti-virus companies, attacks vulnerable  ] machines over TCP port 135, then spawns a shell  ] and initiates a TFTP file transfer to retrieve the  ] worm's code.  Well get ready the worm is set to DoS windowsupdate.microsoft.com starting this Saturday, 09/15/2003.  For more information Symantec has a good write up on the worm at  http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html  |