From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 13:57:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43ADC37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rambo.401.cx (rambo.401.cx [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA3D643F93 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:57:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (rocky [192.168.0.2]) by rambo.401.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7EKvM7Q085416; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:57:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <3F3BF7B1.3040704@401.cx> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:57:21 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Strick References: <200308141843.h7EIhCtl000524@ice.nodomain> In-Reply-To: <200308141843.h7EIhCtl000524@ice.nodomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about MSblaster worm X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:57:40 -0000 Dan Strick wrote: > Recently I have seen a lot of newspaper articles warning about the > new "MSblaster" worm. They say that it uses a denial of service > attack mode. Once it installs itself on your system it causes the > system to crash and makes it difficult for you to get any work done. > > In what way is this different from a normal Microsoft product? > > mostly just curious - > Dan Strick > strick@covad.net The worm crashes the machine exactly every 60 seconds. None of the m$ products I know is that predictable. -- R