> > Does it impact the network operation? > > Eg, does it adversely affect the network? (say, like Beagle did.) > > I was thinking sql-slammer, massive flood causing signifcant > amount of network infrastructure to go down. (people on low speed links > with large blocks of address space were DoS'ed off the network). > > I don't think of drive-by browser/desktop infection as a networking > issue, more of an end-host issue. > > - Jared
so, how many netops folks use or are forced to use IE in the mgmt of their particular sector of an IP network? netops being deaf/blind; "... the MRTG/Cricket graphs are not visable... does that mean nothing is happening?..." might be considered operationaly significant. Or not.. YMMV... --bill