Well, Microsoft has patched those pesky DNS vulnerabilities affecting Windows. When the flaws were first revealed, and exploit code began circulating through the darker corners of the Internet, a few of us got excited. You see, it's been a while since we've seen a bofa fide network worm unleashed on the Internet.There are a few technical reasons for this. First, system administrators tend to firewall things these days. Second, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 slapped a software firewall on default installations of Windows boxes, eliminating those machines from network worms' reach. But still, a well written worm that exploited this DNS bug would have spread, despite having to attack machines on weird RPC ports which are normally sealed off from the outside world.
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