Hey, Same guy that "released" the norton start/stopkeylogger ..
http://www.hm2k.org/news/1141413208.html the comments provide some more info On 4 Mar 2006 05:42:11 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It appears that various routers are prone to an IRC-only DoS attack. > Particularly Netgear and Linksys routers have been shown vulnerable. > > If a client behind one of the vulnerable routers connects to an IRC server on > port 6667 (and only 6667, does not DoS with other ports) and a user posts the > following string in either a channel, private message, ctcp, notice, etc.. > the router will drop the connection. The string is as follows: > > DCC SEND anylongrandomstringhere > > It is most commonly being seen as > > DCC SEND "string" 0 0 0 > > but that appears to be unneccessary. The string does need to be 15+ chars in > length. > > Further, it appears the routers that are vulnerable to this are running > vxworks as their embedded OS. Older linux Linksys routers appear to be immune. >
