Anyone else seeing a huge spike in attempts to (ab)use loc-srv (135/tcp)?

Thu Aug 21 14:25:56 PDT 2003

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, J C Lawrence wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 05:38:01 -0700 (PDT)
> David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org> wrote:
>
> > Is this, perhaps, yet an additional manifestation of the virus-du-jour
> > for Microsoft-based machines (and thus, additional evidence that they
> > ought to be firewalled off from access to any resources about which a
> > reasonable person might care)?
>
> Without answering the question I'll note that I've been receiving almost
> 1,000 bounces or we-couldn't-deliver-your-message-coz-it-had-a-virus
> messages per day on my personal account for the last few days due to the
> Windows virus de jour.  All the original messages are of course
> forgeries -- but the bouncing MTAs don't know that.
>
> "Tiresome" is not quite the word.

IANAL and don't know much about filing small claims.  Since this loss of use
of both computing resources and bandwidth is _directly_ related to a flaw in
Microsoft windows has anyone considered filing a small claim against
Microsoft?  The actual amounts are unlikely to be large, but Microsoft will
be obliged to respond to them, if there are 1,000 of them their Lawyer bills
are going to get large and that may then become a "significant" issue.

I do seem to recall that there is a limit on how many times you can claim in
small claims court, so this may not be effective over the long term.

Simon.