From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 11:44:42 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 6913537B401 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:44:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta1.adelphia.net (mta1.mail.adelphia.net [64.8.50.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5244A43FE5 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:44:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.179.151]) by mta1.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030814184456.QZIT1347.mta1.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:44:56 -0400 Message-ID: <3F3BD898.6010408@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:44:40 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 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: dan@ice.nodomain 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 18:44:42 -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? It costs less? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com