From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 11:43:15 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 DEE9B37B405 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:43:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.covadmail.net (mx01.covadmail.net [63.65.120.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFE5243FBD for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:43:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from strick@covad.net) Received: (covad.net 27966 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2003 18:43:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ice.nodomain) (68.164.192.245) by sun-qmail13 with SMTP; 14 Aug 2003 18:43:10 -0000 Received: from ice.nodomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ice.nodomain (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h7EIhC1u000525; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:43:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@ice.nodomain) Received: (from dan@localhost) by ice.nodomain (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h7EIhCtl000524; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:43:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:43:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Strick Message-Id: <200308141843.h7EIhCtl000524@ice.nodomain> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: dan@ice.nodomain Subject: 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 18:43:16 -0000 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