Re: Remote Procedure Control

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From: Todd J Heron (todd_heron_no_spam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:52:22 -0500

This behavior is descriptive the blaster virus or a variant of it which
attacks the RPC service. I'd update my AV definitions and perform another
manual scan on this machine.

Reference:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.mspx -- description of
blaster worm
http://www.trendmicro.com/download/dcs.asp -- copy Sysclean and pattern
file into same folder to execute from.
http://www.trendmicro.com/download/pattern.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/gtm/securityguidance/hub.mspx --
Microsoft security guidance.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/avdind_0.mspx --
Microsoft AntiVirus Defense-in-depth Guide. 

-- 
Todd J Heron, MCSE
Windows Server 2003/2000/NT
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