Jason, I agree with you. I have been testing XP for a while now. I have not had any problems on it that I can see. S *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/6/2001 at 19:47 Jason Lewis wrote: >This isn't news. Unix and Linux have raw socket functionality. If you >install a sniffer or an IDS on Windows, you usually install software that >will give you the ability to write raw IP packets. Steve did what he wanted >and got headlines with his "sky is falling" rant. > >He makes it sound like the day after XP is released, there will be DDOS all >over the place. My money is on that not happening. > >Jason Lewis >http://www.packetnexus.com >It's not secure "Because they told me it was secure". The people at the >other end of the link know less about security than you do. And that's >scary. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: firewalls-owner@Lists.GNAC.NET >[mailto:firewalls-owner@Lists.GNAC.NET]On Behalf Of Irony >Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:27 PM >To: Firewalls@Lists.GNAC.NET >Subject: This is a must read document. It will freak you out > > >- 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.] - [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]