Security alert -- Blaster update

["Mark Jurik" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hope you took heed of my previous posting about the Windows RPC DCOM 
vulnerability. 

A worm that exploits this security bug is spreading quickly. Alternately 
called "Blaster" and "LovSan," the worm infects Windows 2000 and Windows XP 
systems and often causes them to repeatedly crash. TradeStation users may 
discover that the crash might include TradeStation wiping out their entire 
collection of Easy Language studies. 

As many as 1.4 million systems have been infected as of 4 PM EDT, Tuesday. 
That is at least four times the number infected by Code Red.  For 
instructions on how to detect and remove the worm from your system, go to 
...  

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49251-2003Aug12.html


- Mark Jurik