Re: trusted computing initiative

["john doe" <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com>]

>From: Jonathan <j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net>

actually his attachment to the internet is what got him infected.  blaster 
uses a huge gaping hole in the ms rpc service to spread itself about, not a 
.exe that your friend downloaded from the internet.

the patch to prevent the infection has been available on windows update for 
a month.  had your friend checked WU from time to time, it wouldnt have been 
an issue (of course had microsoft imposed extremely strict coding practices 
for security and not quick development it wouldnt have been an issue either)

incidently the hole being used has been used by script kiddies for some time 
now i find out (longer than the issue has been publicly known, ALOT longer).

Casey

>
><begin rant>
>  A friend, who uses Xp, went to www.micorosoft.com and downloaded the 
>patch
>for the Luvsan worm.  When he clicked on the download button, a message
>appeared telling him to turn off his virus software. This he did and
>restarted the download. When the download was done, he had infected his
>computer with the Luvsan (Blaster?) worm. This tells me that the geniuses 
>at
>Microsoft did not even bother to check the validity of the software patches
>they had. Nor did they test the URL for malicious redirects. It's just mind
>boggling that people will pay for this kind of gross incompetence.
></end rant>
>
>							Kind regards
>							Jonathan
>
>
>
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