RE: IP flood?

[Chris Merkel <chrism () geo-synthetics com>]

It's just the Welchia virus - machines infected with it scan for other
machines on the subnets near them for infection - not much you can do about
it.


Chris Merkel
Sysadmin
Geo-Synthetics, Inc.


(Oh, and since I have to say it any time someone brings up GRC - Steve
Gibson is a scaremongering hack - don't bother with his tools.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Brown [mailto:ericbrow () ziplip com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:01 AM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: IP flood?
>
> Can we stop the IP flood?  Can or should the ISP?  Or should 
> he just shut off notification in Zone Alarm so he doesn't see 
> the messages.  
 

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