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[paper chase guy]

The RPC exploit, at least had long been patched by the time the MSBlast virus came out. It had been known by MS, admitted as a flaw, and patched. It's just that very few people had applied the patch.

The humorous thing is that the night before it hit, I was reading a security website that warned of an imminent virus taking advantage of the exploit, and I of course in my infinite wisdom, didn't take the oppurtunity to install the patch.

The next morning I woke up and my computer was rebooting on its own (due to MSBlast using the RPC exploit.) Luckily, my firewall stopped the exploit from being used to download the virus code, so I didn't get infected.

I applied the patch pretty quickly after that :) That's about the closest I've come to a virus in 10 years, but I keep the system all patched now.