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RE: [OT] Weird PC error when scanning using Adaware


  • Subject: RE: [OT] Weird PC error when scanning using Adaware
  • From: "Ian" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:28:42 -0000


Oops - forgot to mention - the pint about this being from another
machine...
If this PC is behind a firewall, you have another machine on the local
network that is infected with the virus.

Ian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 17 January 2005 15:44
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Weird PC error when scanning using Adaware


Sounds like the machine isn't patched against the DCOM exploit (which one!
;) )

This only happens when *another* machine on the network (or internet if the
machine is exposed) uses the DCOM exploit to drop a payload on the machine.

Installing XP SP2 will patch against this (and a host of other) exploits.
To
be honest, given the increase in security of SP2, there would have to be a
really serious reason not to update all of the XP machines as a matter of
course.

Ian.





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