If I look on the Homepage of the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) http://www.nipc.gov/ (part of the FBI), I see there are Advisory's about the diffrent Distributed denial of service tools. But I think the way how its handled is really wrong. Instead of "enforcing" the people who are used as amplifiers to fix their networks there are tools to find such Denial of Service Tools on a system. I think this Virus-Scanner acting is kinda useless since the broadcast amplifiers are still existing, and the network admins of small ISP's or small company's are just to lazy to upgrade their network or don't know how (with loose of their bandwidth). In germany I heard there is a Task Force to fix this problem by the government too but they also want to fix the problem also by a detection of those easy new writeable tools. In a scenario coming up the next years there will be cellulars who flood someone, or a lot of DSL smurf kids... this is really sad, cause e.g. a small company would just get attacked than by a frustrated customer. Best Regards, Thomas Thomas Kuiper | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tobit.com __ Core Development | ICQ #8345483 | /__/\ Tobit Software | PGP Key on Request | ask your server. \__\/
