[73500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mega DOS tomorrow?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Shultz)
Wed Aug 25 15:36:48 2004
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:35:43 -0700
From: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200408251928.i7PJSjfr022654@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:53:44 EDT, Andy Dills said:
>
>>So, slashdot is linking to some news sites that are reporting that
>>Aleksandr Gostev from Kapersky Labs in Russia has predicted that a large
>>chunk of the net will be shut down tomorrow.
>
>
> And here's the *real* reason why:
>
> XP2 SP2 goes on AU tomorrow...
>
> http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=23613&category=main
>
> Might be interesting to see how much of a traffic blip this causes.
The Home Version has been up for a week or so now, hasn't it? It'll be
more interesting to see how many businesses temporarily go out of
business as they go around disabling the firewall on all of their XP Pro
systems...
--
Jeff Shultz
Network Technician
Willamette Valley Internet
