RE: "MS Blast" Win2000 Patch Download

["Bassett, Mark" <mbassett () omaha com>]

That's why I made sure our entire LAN had the rpc vuln patches.  Even if
it did breach the firewall by some other access point it would be unable
to spread.  Gotta have that onion ;)



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey A.K. Dick [mailto:jeffdick () covirt com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 12:09 PM
To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] "MS Blast" Win2000 Patch Download

Brad Bemis wrote: "Personally I am getting tired of people making these
kinds of comments.  ... While it may be true that blocking port 135 at
the
firewall would work in an ideal environment"

Amen ... and ...forget about "ideal environment" ... it won't
necessarily be
effective in *any* environment except the
"network-comprised-of-a-single-computer-that-nobody-uses" (tm). These
people
clearly haven't heard of notebooks and the concept of people using them
outside the network (say, at home).

These are the same folks who patted themselves on the back all Monday
night
for protecting their networks ... until people started plugging their
notebooks into the network on Tuesday morning ... oops ...

Cheers,

JAKD

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