Author: Johan Hutting
Date: 09:17:15 11/17/01
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On November 16, 2001 at 19:10:05, Christophe Theron wrote: > >Yes XP is a threat because of its "open ports". To sum it up, any program under >XP can access any Winsock port, even for evil purposes. On previous versions of >Windows it was more difficult. > >Microsoft did nothing else than to implement the whole BSD protocol (which was >not the case in previous versions), but by doing so created a new threat to >Internet security. For example it will be easier for hackers to launch huge DoS >(Denial of Service) attacks using the Windows XP computers of their victims >(computers infected by "bots"). > >More details at http://grc.com/default.htm > >This is not an anti-MS site. It's a site about Internet security. It/he's also quite controversial, more details as well at http://www.grcsucks.com
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