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&gt;&gt; <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,9";>http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,9</a>
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&gt; Thanks. Now if I could just figure out when buffer overflows became the most
&gt; popular DoS attack, or when they became a DoS attack at all for that matter,
&gt; I'd be all set. Any denial of service caused by a buffer overflow is either
&gt; due to a poorly written exploit or is a mere side effect. If we surmise that
&gt; a buffer overflow is by definition a DoS attack, then EVERY attack is a DoS
&gt; attack and the water is now completely mud choked. The article is pretty
&gt; misleading, and it's overall theme is factually inaccurate from the
&gt; beginning. A buffer overflow is nothing more than a vehicle for attack. It
&gt; is my understanding that the MS solution misrepresented here works by simply
&gt; killing the attacking process, not shutting down the entire system. This may
&gt; be an exercise in semantics, but details are important when discussing
&gt; technical matters. Based on their misguided ideas of how things work, I
&gt; wouldn't pay these two &quot;consultants&quot; to clean my windows (pun intended) for
&gt; fear of them painting them instead.

I think you are absolutely right. My reading of it is that they are 
misusing the term buffer overflow. I think they are referring to 
overflowing some internal network buffer when an attacker sends a ton of 
data, so when the OS gets send more network data than it has buffers for 
it shuts down. I would be interested in a clarification on this one if 
anyone knows better. the link on the words &quot;buffer overflow&quot; give more or 
less correct definition, though.

 	bjorn

PS why am I suddenly receiving all ALE messages twice?


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