On Mon, 21 Feb 100, Darren Reed wrote: > In some email I received from Paul D. Robertson, sie wrote: > [...] > > Viruses have *clearly* cost more money over time, and yet I don't see the > > same outroar there. I'm not sure if that's due to market dynamics (it's a > > good business to be in the "antivirus" vendor space), or if it's something > > else, or maybe the sentencing this week is the start of that? > > Viruses are a problem which can be `managed'. They're `damage' is also Only after the fact. > localized in effect - a pc here or there and aren't exactly something > which is high profile. Keep backups of important data, etc, and you're Melissa dropped several companies e-mail systems off the Net for quite a while. > But these attacks do more than that. They also, with their publicity, > suggest that perhaps the Internet isn't the most fabulous place to be > generating new business. With all the billions of dollars put into > the Internet, the last thing a lot of people want to feel is that it's > wasted money or even at risk with no long term way of protecting people > from the DDoS attaks. Long-term there are plenty of ways to protect from DDoS attacks, and some of them will even work. It's the short- to mid-term that's the problem. However, I still think that trying to call network scanners akin to munitions when VCL isn't is lopsided. Then again, I think the idiot who put a programming language into a word processor should be shot. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions probertsat_private which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." PSB#9280
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