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GRC releases final DCOM fix

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On September 3, 2003, 4:33 AM

[URL=http://www.grc.com/]Gibson Research Corporation[/URL], the company offering port scanning and an immense amount of security and privacy information to the end user for free have released a small [URL=http://grc.com/files/DCOMbob.exe](29kb) program[/URL]. Which will verify if your system is vulnerable to the Blaster virus and also allow you to permanently disable the DCOM service. [URL=http://grc.com/dcom/]See their DCOM page[/URL] for more details on the program and the DCOM vulnerability.

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  1. September 3, 2003 7:53 PM
    sockey99 said:
    I think Gibson is great. He is Microsofts Devils Advocate.
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  2. September 5, 2003 1:51 PM
    BrownPaper said:
    having someone try to make computing more secure is good.
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