tech support being flooded due to IE 0day
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
Fri Sep 22 04:32:41 UTC 2006
> > 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
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