[wplug] Internet Security and DOS(denial of service) attacks

[Smith, Edward]

I'll agree that he goes nuts about lots of little things, but having read
this already I'd definitely second the notion that everyone should think
about reading this write it. Steve Gibson, while being a bit overly paranoid
sometimes, knows his stuff. 

At the very least this is a good read about windoze security holes.

-Ed

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Edward C. Smith
Multimedia Programmer
Interactive Media Corp.
Butler, PA


-----Original Message-----
From: T Quine [mailto:quining at hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 10:52 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Internet Security and DOS(denial of service)
attacks


>From: Bill <billpwl1 at home.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug <wplug at wplug.org>
>Subject: [wplug] Internet Security and DOS(denial of service) attacks
>Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:28:36 -0400
>
>I know this is only one of the reasons we are using LINUX, but this
>report by Steve Gibson of Gibson Research is a really interesting read.
>As if we needed another reason to avoid using MS Windows. There are a
>few here......
>
>  http://grc.com/dos/intro.htm
>
>Bill Powell

I'd be wary of this guy's opinions.  He tends to go nuts about 
not-so-amazing things.  For example, he's convinced that since windows XP 
has support for RAW SOCKETS, it's going to become the hackers' favorite DDOS

tool.  Nevermind the fact that I could write a perl script on my linux 
machine which can do the same thing.  Eh.

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