Worm with teeth could infect 10s of millions of Windows machines

A WORLDWIDE ALERT was issued today about an RPC worm which is likely to cause large scale infections on Windows 2000 and XP systems.

It doesn’t spread by email, but looks for Internet ports that haven’t been patched by the latest Microsoft patches.

The firm said the worm, known as Lovsan or Msblast is expected to attack windowsupdate.com on the 16th of August.View : Details from Inqurier