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[ILUG] From the register. XP machine rooted in 200 seconds.

[ILUG] From the register. XP machine rooted in 200 seconds.

Liam Bedford lbedford at lbedford.org
Thu Dec 2 10:25:21 GMT 2004


On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 06:38 +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Liam Bedford wrote:
> 
> > Read the original on usatoday.net. Once the machines blocked ICMP, 
> > the number of attacks per hour dropped drastically.
> 
> Ah, BTW, how did you get this from the article? The word "ICMP" 
> doesnt appear in it at all..
> 
It was from my memory that the XP2 firewall drops ICMP by default. Could
be wrong.. my memory isn't as good as paul's ;)

L.
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