The latter is the preferred method, especially when you have multiple computers to patch, also sometimes windows update does not patch accurately whereby systems seemingly are patched and windows update says they are yet they are still susceptible to the exploit in question. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp
Are you running IIS on your win2k system? Is DCOM disabled on your home systems? Go to Steve Gibson's site and get his DCOMbobulator http://www.grc.com/dcom/ which will test your systems to verify if DCOM is active and shut it down, provided it is patched while still running first.
Consider also that with these patches that many times you may find that when something gets patched that something else is uncovered, unfortunately.
Happy holidays,
Peter Kaulback
In the hour of 08:12 PM 12/16/2003, tedmozer spoke this:
Well I found all of my home computers infected (which are networked) and the Win XP Pro/Win 2000 computers here in the computer lab where I work at night infected. Since my wirelessly connected Tablet Computer (which was infected) traveled from my day job (where the infection originated) to home to here at the college, that is no doubt the means of transmission. What is weird, and contrary to the below, is that at the very least all of my home computers, including the Tablet PC, are religiously updated with all the Windows updates and checked and updated on a daily basis for v^rus updates. However the updates did not prevent the infection and Symantec Antivirus did not detect or prevent it. McAfee here at the college did not detect/prevent it either......
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Kaulback" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 7:39 PM Subject: RE: PCWorks: Static & Computer??
> Here is the Symantec write up regarding this problem > http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.welchia.worm.html. If you have > an updated windows system then there is no risk of infection. > > Peter Kaulback > > In the hour of 04:18 PM 12/16/2003, Ted Mozer spoke this: > > >Has anyone had any experience with the Welcha v*rus?? It was not picked up > >by Semantic Antivirus, but by our IT department at work. It was on all our > >new Dell computers right out of the box (which were imaged by Dell with an > >image file sent by us - so who know, at this point, who would be to blame). > >But using FIXWELCH, I am finding it at home also (I could have carried it > >home on my Tablet Computer which was infected). Could this be a bogus > >detection????
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