Note, though, that if somebody's gotten Sub7 onto a box, they can probably use it to install libpcap, making ME and NT as capable, for suitably-written malware, as 2000 and XP.... David Gillett On 6 Jun 2001, at 16:27, Irony wrote: > - 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 majordomo@lists.gnac.net with > "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.] > - [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]