RE: Increasing ICMP Echo Requests

From: Bruce Martins (BMartins_at_extend.COM)
Date: 08/21/03

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    Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:29:17 -0400
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>

    Well no I don't expect Joe shmoe to know this, but it's the corporate
    networks that we are seeing being bogged down, and helping to spread
    these worms around, how many Joe shmoes have SQL ? Most of what I have
    said the people that are reading it aren't Joe shmoes. As well win 98 is
    not affected by the latest major worm and 98 is no longer being sold
    with new machines XP home is, but this list isn't an out reach to Joe
    Shmoe and others like him it's to the administrators and advanced users,
    many of which know what they are doing and still don't patch machines or
    do what they can to protect themselves and their networks 1 month is
    more then enough time to test the patch and roll it out to all of the
    users on their network again my 2 cents as I understand a lot are over
    worked as it is

    Bruce Martins
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]
    Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 12:37 AM
    To: Bruce Martins
    Cc: incidents@securityfocus.com

    On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:43:29 EDT, Bruce Martins said:

    > patches it, the real problem is that some people aren't heading the
    > warnings and patching their machines when a patch is released for a
    > very serious vulnerability like this one, same thing happened with the

    > SQL slammer worm, people had more then enough time to test and apply
    > this patch but didn't but hey just my 2 cents

    OK.. So this worm does a really nice slash-and-burn if it gets loose on
    a nice speedy 100mbit corporate network. But that's just where it gets
    the
    *initial* burn, it's not where its staying power is going to be...

    Hmm... How many copies of Win98 and later has MS sold? Hint - a LOT of
    them aren't corporate, they're being sold to Joe Sixpack on that machine
    they just bought at Walmart or Circuit City.

    And remember - Joe Sixpack is still fuzzy on the idea that the Internet
    and the Web are two different things. Do you *REALLY* expect him to
    read MS03-026 and understand what it *REALLY* means?

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