Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

> > Does it impact the network operation?
> > Eg, does it adversely affect the network? (say, like Beagle did.)
>
>       I was thinking sql-slammer, massive flood causing signifcant
> amount of network infrastructure to go down.  (people on low speed links
> with large blocks of address space were DoS'ed off the network).
>
>       I don't think of drive-by browser/desktop infection as a networking
> issue, more of an end-host issue.
>
>       - Jared

        so, how many netops folks use or are forced to use IE
        in the mgmt of their particular sector of an IP network?
        netops being deaf/blind; "... the MRTG/Cricket graphs are 
        not visable...  does that mean nothing is happening?..."
        might be considered operationaly significant.  Or not..
        YMMV...

--bill