Comment Re:No firewall? Probably not. (Score 2, Informative) 817
Keep in mind that Blaster was the only one of these DCOM worms that only exploited the DCOM hole. The newer variants, esp. Nachi, also tried to exploit the even-older IIS WebDAV hole. If the infected boxes were on the Internet and serving Web pages, no amount of firewalling will help.
Patch, patch, patch should be the mantra of every company that runs their business on MS software.
Patch, patch, patch should be the mantra of every company that runs their business on MS software.