Re: slapper worm

["Michael Mansour" <mic npgx com au>]

Hi Mike,

> > You should do a "netstat -na | grep SYN", if you see alot of those then
> > slapper is there DOS attacking people.
> 
> $ netstat -na | grep SYN
> $
> 
> Thanks for the advice. But, as I am behind a stealth firewall,
> I feel relatively secured against *this* type of attack.
> 
> Umm, what does "there DOS attacking people"? I had problems
> parsing that.

I should have written it DoS, stands for Denial of Service.

Michael.