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Re: DDOS anecdotes


From: "David Howe" <DaveHowe () gmx co uk>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 23:28:08 +0100


"Michael Painter" <tvhawaii () shaka com> wrote:
I'm having a hard time understanding this.  Wouldn't it be easier/simpler
for
these crackers to just install their bots on, oh say, 20 million machines
running
XP than the crackers having to deal with installing the bot -and- the code
to do
the spoofing on Win95/98/98SE/98ME?
As I understand it, the spoofing code is already available as a drop-in
DLL - ZPacket.
For an example of a low-level packet sniffer written in Delphi (using that
library) and a link to the source of the library itself, see:
http://users.swing.be/francois.piette/ingussniffer.htm


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