RE: A DoS Must Read from Steve Gibson...

[jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Here is another reference to the same story.

http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/06/06/010606hnxpdos.xml

I think is the point that XP will have the capability to send "raw IP"
packets and do spoofing.
Both of which is available on Unix today but  XP will make it "A little
more available"  to the masses.

John Carr

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Don't get too excited with the stuff Mr Gibson writes, it is know, in
security circles, to apparently be close to scaremongery stories...
Keep your pinch of salt handy...
--phil
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>Hi Folks,
>
>There is apparently something pretty scary mentioned in the following
>and about the INABILITY to stop DoS attacks in the near future unless
>Microsoft starts listening...
>
>"For no good reason whatsoever, Microsoft has equipped Windows 2000 and
>XP with the ability FOR ANY APPLICATION to generate incredibly
>malicious
>Internet traffic, including spoofed source IP's and SYN-flooding full
>scale Denial of Service (DoS) attacks!" Steve Gibson, Gibson Research
>
>See:
>
>http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
>
>Comments ?
>
>Chuck

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