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To: mr.mark who started this subject	5/31/2001 6:55:03 AM
From: mr.mark	of 110652

wow, check this from the steve gibson article on the denial of service attacks ( grc.com ).... of course, *"the attacking machines were all security-compromised Windows-based PC's...I determined that we had been attacked by 474 Windows PC's.". this illustrates for me the uselessness of the average home user spending time to try to track intrusion attempts. where does it lead, ultimately, even if it leads anywhere? to somebody who didn't even know he or she owned a compromised pc! but read on to learn what gibson says awaits us, up around the bend.... ***************************** "It is incredibly fortuitous for the Internet that the massive population of Windows-based machines has never enjoyed this complete "Unix Sockets" support which is so prone to abuse. But the very bad news is . . . This has horribly changed for the worse with the release of Windows 2000 and the pending release of Windows XP. For no good reason whatsoever, Microsoft has equipped Windows 2000 and XP with the ability FOR ANY APPLICATION to generate incredibly malicious Internet traffic, including spoofed source IP's and SYN-flooding full scale Denial of Service DoS) attacks! While I was conducting research into the hacker world following these DoS attacks, I encountered evidence — in attack-tool source code — that malicious hackers are already fully aware of the massive malicious power of the new versions of Windows and are waiting impatiently for the "home version" of Windows XP to arrive in the homes of millions of less clueful end users. When those insecure and maliciously potent Windows XP machines are mated to high-bandwidth Internet connections, we are going to experience an escalation of Internet terrorism the likes of which has never been seen before. If I fail in my mission to convince Microsoft to remove this from Windows XP, the historical problems with Internet attacks promise to pale in comparison to what will begin happening as Windows XP is deployed next year." *******************************

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