Blaster worm exploits RPC DCOM vulnerability
ENT News | at | by Mike
The first worm, which exploits the juicy RPC DCOM vulnerability in Windows that Microsoft released a patch for last month, went into the wild on Monday, crashing vulnerable computers, slowing down local subnets and sending scanning traffic on port 135 through the roof.
The worm goes by the name MS Blast (ISS X-Force), Blaster (Symantec and Sophos), Win32.Poza (Computer Associates) or Lovsan (McAfee and F-Secure). Symantec rated the urgency of the worm as "high," although most other anti-virus vendors deemed it a medium threat.