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Re: Mega DOS tomorrow?

  • From: Jeff Shultz
  • Date: Wed Aug 25 15:39:32 2004

[email protected] wrote:

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:53:44 EDT, Andy Dills said:

So, slashdot is linking to some news sites that are reporting that
Aleksandr Gostev from Kapersky Labs in Russia has predicted that a large
chunk of the net will be shut down tomorrow.
And here's the *real* reason why:

XP2 SP2 goes on AU tomorrow...

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=23613&category=main

Might be interesting to see how much of a traffic blip this causes.
The Home Version has been up for a week or so now, hasn't it? It'll be more interesting to see how many businesses temporarily go out of business as they go around disabling the firewall on all of their XP Pro systems...

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Jeff Shultz
Network Technician
Willamette Valley Internet