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RE: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect
From: "Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls () utdallas edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:00:12 -0500
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Nelson [mailto:lists () venom600 org] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 11:57 AM To: morning_wood Cc: full-disclosure () lists netsys com Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect You need to keep in mind that affected != infected. Many of us admins who don't even administrate a single windows box were affected by amount of bandwidth consumed by people who were infected. This thing effectively created a denial of service on many networks and any host trying to use that network (be it an infected windows box or one of my hundreds of unix boxes) was, at the very least, significantly slowed down.
Sobig did that as well. Even without a single infection on your network, the support people were overwhelmed with phone calls and emails, some mail servers collapsed under the load, technical staff consumed time looking for workarounds and stopgap measures to keep the stupid bounce and virus warning messages out. The cost is enormous, even without being infected. And it affects every single user, whether they were using Windows, *nix or Mac. Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- Re: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 29)
- Re: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect Paul Schmehl (Aug 29)
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- Re: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect Larry W. Cashdollar (Aug 30)
- Re: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect Byron Copeland (Aug 29)
- Re: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 31)
- Re: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect Darren Reed (Aug 30)
- RE: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect Nick FitzGerald (Aug 29)
- Re: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect Mike Tancsa (Aug 29)
- Re: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect Jeremiah Cornelius (Aug 29)
- Re: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect morning_wood (Aug 29)
- Re: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect Anthony Saffer (Aug 29)
- Re: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect Paul Schmehl (Aug 29)
- Re: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect Michael D Schleif (Aug 29)
- RE: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect Steve Wray (Aug 29)