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

Fri Oct 12 13:55:01 UTC 2007

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