Re: [Full-Disclosure] Windows Dcom Worm planned DDoS

[Reveret Julien <shaddai@nerim.net>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 07:02:37PM +0200, Sebastian Niehaus wrote:
> > And, of course, if MS started messing with the DNS entries for 
> > windowsupdate.com, it would be cutting an awful lot of users off from 
> > much needed updates. which could be as disturbing as the rest of the 
> > worm's effects...
> 
> Could be a nice feature of a worm to modify the "hosts" file and
> prevent infected maschines to do DNS lookups.

Interesting concept :)

> Users typing "www.microsoft.com" into their browsers could be tricked
> into downloading stuff from hostile servers and the "windows update"
> could be disabeled easily.

What if someone shutdowns the server ? I think a worm could be more
efficient by disabling windowsupdate.com (ptr to 127.0.0.1), preventing
users from patching easily their system.

> This probably istn't a new concept, eh?

I don't know.

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