How much longer will people put up with the millions of dollars of losses in time, resources and service inflicted on the net by the joke vulnerabilities in the toy operating system known as Windows? Enough is Enough. Sure, let's just filter everything..all service providers please become M$'s virtual firewall now please. Haven't you windows lamers learned anything yet? Len
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:07:15PM -0400, len@netsys.com said:
How much longer will people put up with the millions of dollars of losses in time, resources and service inflicted on the net by the joke vulnerabilities in the toy operating system known as Windows? Enough is Enough.
http://darkuncle.net/microsoft_rant.html -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:09:41PM -0700, darkuncle@darkuncle.net said:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:07:15PM -0400, len@netsys.com said:
How much longer will people put up with the millions of dollars of losses in time, resources and service inflicted on the net by the joke vulnerabilities in the toy operating system known as Windows? Enough is Enough.
for those financial types reading the list (courtesy /. post): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/737353.stm California-based IT consultancy Computer Economics estimated worldwide damage to be $2.6bn by the end of Thursday. It said that figure could soar to $10bn by next week. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-08-01-code-red-costs.htm Lloyds of London put the estimate for Love Bug at $15 billion. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-08-01-code-red-costs.htm the economic damage from the Melissa virus in 1999 to be about $1 billion. http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2001/10/22/focus4.html "Code Red, which started in mid-July, so far has cost the U.S. economy $2.6 billion." http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30072.html "The Klez virus last year cost businesses $9 billion worldwide in lost productivity," http://www.bstpierre.org/Articles/fog0000000073.html "SirCam", which also propagates through email, cost $1 billion. Summary: "ILOVEYOU" virus: $2.6 - 15.0 Billion Melissa: $1 Billion CodeRed: $2.6 Billion Klez: $9 Billion SirCAM: $1 Billion Estimated Total TCO: $16.2 - 28.6 billion -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui
Len Rose wrote:
How much longer will people put up with the millions of dollars of losses in time, resources and service inflicted on the net by the joke vulnerabilities in the toy operating system known as Windows? Enough is Enough.
Sure, let's just filter everything..all service providers please become M$'s virtual firewall now please.
Haven't you windows lamers learned anything yet?
You could of course just filter spoofed traffic, which would then stop a lot of the DDoS attack that I'm suffering with. For the second time in 2 weeks, 2 of my IPs have been null routed at the USA -> Australia International links because of a massive DDoS attack. If anyone is seeing traffic directed at: 203.15.51.34 203.15.51.44 or 216.168.20.77 and 216.168.20.77 (the latter 2 not being my hosts but seeing DDoS traffic as well) you might be well advise to shutdown/disconnect the machines as they are likely hacked and/or trojaned. Last attack was a mixture of SYN flood (which has virtually no effect here), 1k packets UDP send at a high volume from distributed machines all aimed at ports arounf 1024. ICMP echo floods, and bogus DNS requests from hosts with the IP: 'x.x.0.0' Obviously some of the floods are not using sppoofed addresses, but I am really at a loss to see why I see _any_ spoofed traffic, I would have expected ISPs out there to be filtering traffic not from their networks by default nowadays. I must just be nieve. Yours Mat
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