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

Thu Aug 21 15:58:23 PDT 2003

I'd imagine you'd have to prove that you MUST be on
the Internet.  Better argument being the Windows users
who have to hire staff to deal with this.  Better
answer being to dump Windows and use something that
works right and isn't a risk to your business or
to your assets and shareholder value.

You can do 3 small claims in a year (AFAIR) before the fee
goes up a bunch.

Quoting Simon Cooper (ea_baylisa at sfik.com):
> 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.