cheers, Joanna
At 13:32 20-07-01, you wrote:
>i think you're ISP dude is getting pretty carried away!
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>it's an attack on IIS WinNT and Win2000 SERVERS, not your desktop PC or
>laptop running Win98, let alone Win NT or Win 2000. it connects to port
>80 (HTTP). It's going to help launch an attack on a WEB page,
>whitehouse.gov. no big deal, really. what people are bummed about is the
>fact that microsoft puts out such crud and that because they do ppl can't
>keep up with the patches and so, nothing is patched. it'll likely have the
>secondary effect of putting people offline at unexpected times, slowing
>things down, etc.
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