Jason,
I agree with you. I have been testing XP for a while now. I have not had any problems
on it that I can see.
S
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
On 6/6/2001 at 19:47 Jason Lewis wrote:
>This isn't news. Unix and Linux have raw socket functionality. If you
>install a sniffer or an IDS on Windows, you usually install software that
>will give you the ability to write raw IP packets. Steve did what he wanted
>and got headlines with his "sky is falling" rant.
>
>He makes it sound like the day after XP is released, there will be DDOS all
>over the place. My money is on that not happening.
>
>Jason Lewis
>http://www.packetnexus.com
>It's not secure "Because they told me it was secure". The people at the
>other end of the link know less about security than you do. And that's
>scary.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Irony
>Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:27 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: This is a must read document. It will freak you out
>
>
>- From time to time a "must read" document is published. Steve Gibson,
>author of ShieldsUp! and one of the gurus of Windows security lived
>through a major distributed denial of service attack and traced the
>attackers. He wrote an extremely readable tutorial on it. It's long,
>and worth every minute. Just one of his many interesting tidbits:
>Windows 2000 and XP, unlike their predecessors, have enormous capacity
>to generate malicious Internet traffic with spoofed IP addresses.
>http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
>-
>[To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
>"unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
>
>-
>[To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
>"unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
-
[To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
"unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
