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You are more likely to get 5000 zonealarm emails.... 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
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