Re: Pingflood attack against Windows98

[fboliva () SAFENETWORKS COM (Fabio Bastiglia Oliva)]

Michal Zalewski wrote:
> Sorry, but I'm afraid this thread is a little bit out-of-date.
> Pingflood against Windows 95/98 is a well-known shool DoS. ping -s -f
> or ping -s -l over local networks seems to cause Windows to lock-on
> permanently (or temporarily, depending on weather), or even reboot.
> Is there anything more to talk about?:>

Dear Mr. Zalewski,

        Since Microsoft's announced that Windows 95 DoSs were corrected
in Windows 98, and we found this bug AGAIN... I think that this thread
IS NOT out-of-date.

Best Regards
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Fabio Bastiglia Oliva - Director
fboliva () safenetworks com

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