Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Leigh Porter wrote:
> You are more likely to get 5000 zonealarm emails....

Or a place on dshield's top 10.


> Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote:
> >
> > > You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like
> > > this. Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth
> > > worrying about.
> >
> > I tend to agree, but back when I manned the abuse desk (among others)
> > at my former employer, I would see abuse reports come in all the time
> > that were basically a report from whatever security software someone
> > was running on their PC, accompanied by a message that was usually
> > something along the lines of this:
> >
> > "HOST x.x.x.x ON YOUR NETWORK PINGED ME!!!!  I TAKE MY SECURITY
> > SERIOUSLY!!  I'M CALLING THE FBI!!!"
> >
> > The knee-jerk reaction is rarely the right one :)
> >
> > jms