James Williams" <jwilliamsat_private> wrote: > Has anybody heard of or seen the Slapper worm DoS a Linksys SOHO router > out of commission? A co-worker whose machine had been infected over the > weekend had his linksys router die over the same period that his box had > been infected with the worm. I know that Nimda had a similar affect on > the Cisco 67x Series ADSL routers running a certain firmware revision and > I was wondering if the Slapper had a similar affect with the Linksys SOHO > routers. The slapper worm can generate a lot of udp traffic while chatting with its peers. This could just clock the line or overload one of the smaller routers. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- jullrichat_private Collaborative Intrusion Detection join http://www.dshield.org
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