Re: Pingflood attack against Windows98

From: Fabio Bastiglia Oliva (fbolivaat_private)
Date: Sun Feb 21 1999 - 23:04:44 PST

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Michal Zalewski wrote:
>
> Sorry, but I'm afraid this thread is a little bit out-of-date.
> Pingflood against Windows 95/98 is a well-known shool DoS. ping -s -f
> or ping -s -l over local networks seems to cause Windows to lock-on
> permanently (or temporarily, depending on weather), or even reboot.
> Is there anything more to talk about?:>
>

Dear Mr. Zalewski,

	Since Microsoft's announced that Windows 95 DoSs were corrected
in Windows 98, and we found this bug AGAIN... I think that this thread
IS NOT out-of-date.

Best Regards
--------------------------------
Fabio Bastiglia Oliva - Director
fbolivaat_private

Safe Networks Informatica LTDA.
http://www.safenetworks.com

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