RE: [Full-Disclosure] recent RPC/DCOM worm thought

2003-08-14 Thread van Ginderachter Serge (svgn)
Title: RE: [Full-Disclosure] recent RPC/DCOM worm thought Seems a good point to me... Serge

RE: [Full-Disclosure] recent RPC/DCOM worm thought

2003-08-14 Thread David Vincent
> If Microsoft were as evil an empire as they are perceived to be, then > wouldn't they already have the backdoor to your system to apply the > patch anyway? If so then why go throught the pain in the ass > to write a > shotty worm and draw bad publicity to the company? " * Digital Rights Manage

RE: [Full-Disclosure] recent RPC/DCOM worm thought

2003-08-14 Thread Kerry Steele
Interesting thought, but I would have to say that it really goes deeper than that. If Microsoft were as evil an empire as they are perceived to be, then wouldn't they already have the backdoor to your system to apply the patch anyway? If so then why go throught the pain in the ass to write a shot

Re: [Full-Disclosure] recent RPC/DCOM worm thought

2003-08-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:20:22 CDT, Kerry Steele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > If Microsoft were as evil an empire as they are perceived to be, then > wouldn't they already have the backdoor to your system to apply the > patch anyway? If so then why go throught the pain in the ass to write a > shott

RE: [Full-Disclosure] recent RPC/DCOM worm thought

2003-08-14 Thread gml
Why build in a backdoor when you can just write crappy code? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kerry Steele Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 3:20 PM To: Eichert, Diana; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] recent RPC/DCOM worm

Re: [Full-Disclosure] recent RPC/DCOM worm thought

2003-08-15 Thread Mike buRdeN
THANK YOU... i've been telling many people this conspiracy theory. i didn't want to post my .2 cents since it's not security related. but here's my reasons. they used an old, off the shelf version of this exploit. didn't modify it much. let's face it. there's much better ways of being stealthy with