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

[Neil Palmer <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are those who say Gibson is talking bollocks !
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19925.html

...Neil





Chuck Lewis <clewis@iquest.net>
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2001/06/25 12:23
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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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