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>From a user's perspective they're now faced with 2 choices:

1. Let the hackers execute malicious code.
2. Let the hackers shut down all the computers at will.

That's not much of a choice. I wonder which one would have the most
impact on a production environment?


On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 10:07, Irv Mullins wrote:

> On Monday 23 August 2004 08:45, Matthew Brown wrote:
> > I cut-and-pasted this one from the ComputerWorld site.  It is in the
> > middle of the article on Windows XP SP2, discussing the benefits of
> > SP2's new networking security:
> >
> >     * Protection against DoS attacks
> >
> >       SP2 should help significantly with denial-of-service (DoS) attacks
> >       caused by buffer overflows
> >      
&gt; &gt; &lt;<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,82920,0";>http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,82920,0</a>
&gt; &gt;0.html&gt;, when too much data is sent to an application's temporary storage
&gt; &gt; area -- sometimes causing that excess data to act as executable code. One
&gt; &gt; of the most popular DoS exploits, buffer overflows will now be prevented
&gt; &gt; from executing commands and will shut down
&gt; &gt;       systems instead. It's an inconvenience that's worth the peace of
&gt; &gt;       mind that no code can be launched and the device won't be further
&gt; &gt;       damaged.
&gt; 
&gt; Typical Microsoft 'solution'. All your work will go bye-bye, but that's a 
&gt; small price to pay &quot;to prevent further damage&quot; :)
&gt; 
&gt; &quot;ABORT, RETRY, IGNORE&quot; offered two too many options for the average computer 
&gt; user, so they went to just plain &quot;ABORT&quot; with Windows. Now they've dropped 
&gt; the &quot;ABORT&quot; option as well.  Jeez.
&gt; 
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