Re: [MLUG] ShieldsUp!

[Ian Monroe <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I read it and it is really fascinationg.
It is kind of scary because I sometimes get Sub7 warnings from the Norton
Internet Security program. Probably just false alarms.

I heard about from the REBOL listserv, which has nothing to do with
security. So it really is making the rounds.

Ian


On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Mike Miller wrote:

> FYI...
> 
> 
> From: Alan for the SANS NewsBites service
> Re:   June 6 SANS NewsBites
> 
> - 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
> 
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