[133441] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Whynott)
Thu Dec 9 13:23:24 2010
From: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
To: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:23:19 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4D011C31.5020903@xyonet.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
i found it funny how M$ started giving away virus/security software for its=
OS. it can't fix the leaky roof, so it includes a roof patch kit. (and p=
uts about 10 companies out of business at the same time)
>>> Many Windows infections
>>> I've seen occur not due to the OS, but due to lack of patching of
>>> applications on the OS. The system does as much as it can.
which applications are home users using which are exploited more than RPC a=
nd friends?
-g
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