08-13-2003, 08:45 AM
Jarulf,Aug 13 2003, 07:27 AM Wrote:Just wondering. IS the bug in the Windows such that one can get infected by just being connected to the net?Actually yes. After looking at it, it moves from computer to computer in a semi random way. So every time you are connected you are able to be aimed to received a new version of it.
Anyway firewalling every access to your computer will prevent from an incoming arrival of the worm.
Just a little advice: go into your services, select properties for the RPC service, deselect the automatic reboot and replace it by do nothing. By this way you will be able to follow all the steps you want to ( and eventually downloading patch or removal tools)
To reply to your questions: RPC is really nice when you get more than one comp, so it is hardly difficult to turn it off. One other thing most of us can do is turning of distributed com services.
I totally agree with you everything should be off on a system by default, by this not the way it is. If it were on a commercial OS, there will be to many complaints from customer arguing your OS do nothing, everytime I want to do something, I am stucked ...