According to Symantec it doesn't know if the system has already been infected until it is running on the target machine, at which point the RPC crash is imminent. It shouldn't re-infect, but further attempts from other infected hosts will cause random reboots. On the plus side this one will be much easier to clean up than CodeRed, Nimda, etc. Random J. Clueless might actually look for patches if his box is rebooting on a regular basis. -Mike --- Michael Damm, MIS Department, Irwin Research & Development V: 509.457.5080 x298 F: 509.577.0301 E: miked@irwinresearch.com -----Original Message----- From: Drew Weaver [mailto:drew.weaver@thenap.com] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 2:53 PM To: 'Mike Damm' Cc: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: RE: RPC errors Its bloody gorgeous too, my girlfriend's pc rebooted like 9 times, apparently the worm doesn't check to see if its already infected. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Damm [mailto:MikeD@irwinresearch.com] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 5:27 PM To: 'Jack Bates'; NANOG Subject: RE: RPC errors The DCOM exploit that is floating around crashes the Windows RPC service when the attacker closes the connection to your system after a successful attack. Best bet is to assume any occurrence of crashing RPC services to be signs of a compromised system until proven otherwise. http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-19.html -Mike --- Michael Damm, MIS Department, Irwin Research & Development V: 509.457.5080 x298 F: 509.577.0301 E: miked@irwinresearch.com -----Original Message----- From: Jack Bates [mailto:jbates@brightok.net] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 1:12 PM To: NANOG Subject: RPC errors I'm showing signs of an RPC sweep across one of my networks that's killing some XP machines (only XP confirmed). How wide spread is this at this time. Also, does anyone know if this is just generating a DOS symptom or if I should be looking for backdoors in these client systems? -Jack