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To: ToySoldier who wrote (26532)	4/7/1999 12:18:00 PM
From: David O'Berry	Respond to of 42771

I have looked throughout the programs in the task manager and cannot find anything that should be issuing DNS queries. This one is confusing me and if you find the trace program to tell what socket is being opened by what program then let me know. It is initiating from a secondary machine in my downstairs office. I have never noticed this before and the only thing running out of the ordinary was a consistently open Word document. The payload definitely contained the host name of that machine, my company's name, and some other garbage I did not have time to decipher. I shut down the Word document with the trace still running but I had to leave. My wife did mention that autosave kicks off every 7 minutes on Word. Is it possible that it would attempt to resolve a host name for some ungodly reason? David

To: ToySoldier who wrote (26532)	4/7/1999 12:26:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

It will take a major theft to wake everybody up I've always thought that the Congress doesn't fully understand what a risk is involved to national security by having Microsoft's buggy systems used as a NOS standard. Microsoft's approach is PC centric --- give everyone access to your PC and then we plug the holes as we find them. It doesn't work. Witness Melissa and now something else: Let's face it, when some foreign power cracks into one of these internet data mining operations look what they're going to get--- everything about say the customers of Dreyfus. Someday we are going to wake up, not to a Melissa virus attack but a major attack on a financial institution with the information in those data mines about its customers being used to mount the trojan horse attack. I believe it was Robert Rubin who said in response to the effort to control the movement of money between countries, that currency is fungible. More so with the electronic movement of currency. A basic foreign attack upon the US financial system involving the internet would be to use Microsofts buggy holes and the internet data mines wealth of information to wreak havoc. I see nothing to stop this from happening. When it happens people will wake up to the fact that internet security is not just a matter of knowing the privacy policies of individual web sites and leaving security to chance. You need a mechansim for protecting individual identities such as digitalme. Letting the market operate blindly in the area of security and letting chance determine the severity of the threat is playing roulette with national security. --- Cassandra