Remember that Microsoft has its own dictionary. "neutral pc" means 100% Microsoft. "Innovate" to Microsoft is similar to "breathing room" to Hitler. "hostile code" probably means anything not written by Microsoft. "Network Operations" <OPS@ci.marysville.wa.us> wrote: > > "Microsoft has embarked on a campaign known as the "war on hostile code", >with the goal of preventing any hostile code from running on users' systems." > > Won't this crash Office/Outlook and Win98/2k ?? > > (sorry I had to do it...) > > > =) > > > > > >>> "Starrdust Webmaster" <webmaster@starrdust.com> 06/06 4:04 PM >>> > Not to take anything away from Steve Gibson nor his informative document, > but read Microsofts response at: > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/raw_sockets.asp > > Starrdust > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Irony [mailto:irony@trini.org] > 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.] > __________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ - [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]