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Petri Helenius wrote: He has a reason: that virus was melting down his network (and was melting down lots of networks).[email protected] wrote:It's those dang Nachi-sized ICMP echo/echo-replies. We block those at all our transit points and dial-up ports. Nachi was killing our cisco access-servers until we did this to stop the spread. If viruses came with instructions, documentation, and source code, we could all rest assured that it did completely self-destruct this month. Instead, we're all watching in wait, and leaving filters handy or in place. (I'd mention the Nachi filtering I had to do and the implications of how I had to do it based on the platform I'm using, but my flamesuit is all tattered just trying to find a safe tool to read my mail.) pt
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