While Microsoft has not yet said when it will release a patch to fix an under-attack flaw in its server software, most properly protected servers should not be vulnerable."Any machine that gets successfully hit by this is poorly set up," says Ronald O'Brien, a senior security analyst at Sophos, a business security company.
The Delbot worm (known as Delbot, Nirbot, or Rinbot) exploits a zero-day flaw in the Domain Name System service on servers running Windows Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2. Following a successful attack, the worm infects the machines with a 'bot' type of malware that gives the attacker remote control over the server, according to Sophos.
Source: pcworld.com
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