LovSan Worm

New worm that makes your system unstable while browsing the web heres some info on it (Only affects windows NT4.0, 2000, XP, and server 2003.)

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

and heres a program to see if you have it (165KB)

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html

what exactly is RPC. That seems to be what it exploits, what is it supposed to be used for?

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Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a protocol that one program can use to request a service from a program located in another computer in a network without having to understand network details. (A procedure call is also sometimes known as a function call or a subroutine call.) RPC uses the client/server model. The requesting program is a client and the service-providing program is the server. Like a regular or local procedure call, an RPC is a synchronous operation requiring the requesting program to be suspended until the results of the remote procedure are returned. However, the use of lightweight processes or threads that share the same address space allows multiple RPCs to be performed concurrently.

....right.....lol...so in english? j/k


what i mean is, what, in the real world, is this used for?

It a protocol (set of instructions) that allows a computer (remote) to request something from another computer (host) in a network without being setup and knowing the exact host's configuration.

Thats about as much I can break it down. lol

My head is full of computer jargon