ceba opened this issue on Aug 13, 2004 ยท 22 posts
rrkknight3 posted Tue, 17 August 2004 at 5:37 AM
Attached Link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-012.mspx
soulhuntre: It depends on what your local network is like and whether you have protection between you and contaminated networks. If you have, for example, a one of the modern home network switches so that you can share your internet connection, it provides a service called Network Address Translation (NAT) which can stop some of the attacks.A newly installed Windows XP can be remotely controlled by someone with the proper tools. Since very young folks have access to these kits, that is just about any one.
Look at the enclosed URL for Microsoft's view of one of them. The spot to check is down in the "General Information" section, hidden behind a + called "Vulnerability Details". Look at RPC Runtime Library Vulnerability - CAN-2003-0813.
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