i have noticed alot of RPC problems of late. is this something that critical updates have not addressed? is the patch offered something everyone should have?
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i have noticed alot of RPC problems of late. is this something that critical updates have not addressed? is the patch offered something everyone should have?
Security advisory MS03-026 was released on July 16, together with the patch. Anyone with Windows NT/2000/XP should have applied it by now, either through Windows Update (it should be listed as a critical update) or manually.
In practice, this worm is going to run for a while yet. Think back to the SQL Slammer worm. MS Blaster is a little slower to spread, but instead of infecting unpatched SQL servers it infects any unpatched Windows 2000/XP machine (workstation or server). The latter group is much larger in number than the former, and includes a large number of people who will get their machines compromised, reformat and go back to get infected again because they don't understand how they got attacked the first time.
thanks tuttle, i figured i had already picked it up in some update or another, just seemed to hit hard in here an thought i better check..