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Subject: winnuke, was Re: Anti-Spammer Tool
From: Bryan Fullerton <bryanf @ samurai . com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 10:18:48 -0400
To: npugh @ ro . com
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <33957F0D.22B53EDB@ro.com>
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At 09:43 AM 6/4/97 -0500, Nimoy M. Pugh wrote:
>It would be a bad thing though if everyone started taking popshots
>around the internet with this thing. Firewalls and proxy servers will
>stop it. And some routers can filter it.

It's a little late to hope people won't be taking potshots with it -
winnuke has been out for many weeks now, this is not a new thing.  All the
IRC kiddies have been randomly nuking stuff since it hit the 'net.  My
personal favourite is the perl version.  :)

>I've heard that there is a microsoft fix for win95 but haven't found it
>or heard directly from microsoft.

The fix (the real one, not just the registry update) was released by
Microsoft on May 20th.

http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q168/7/47.htm

Bryan
{or get an even better fix at ftp.freebsd.org... ;P }
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Bryan Fullerton             "What is the sound of Perl?  Is it not the sound 
Samurai Consulting          of a wall that people have stopped banging their
bryanf@samurai.com          heads against?"                     --Larry Wall
http://www.samurai.com/                There are Pretenders among us.


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