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In article <5r3gsso7hs550d0jau5kdqjl12m4mqs1gj@4ax.com>, K.J. Seefried III 
<kseefried@digitalmojo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:01:13 +0400, "Andrew" <andrwoods67@aol.com>
> wrote:
> >>Sam  wrote:
> >>I have heard about Denial of Service attacks on Yahoo, Amazon and
> >>several other popular sites. They all had fallen.
> >>Where can I find a tool to protect my network?
> >You shouls use TCP Shield against such attacks
> 
> Well...no.
> 
> Such tools might work against some types of DoS (e.g. syn flood,
> etc.), but no host based tool will work if your upstream pipe is
> flooded with rubbish, as would be the case with a distributed DoS
> (e.g. TFN, Trinoo, etc.) such as the attacks on Yahoo.

The original poster is a spammer.  Note that, although he styles his posts 
as "Re:", there is no "References" header, and he's careful not to quote a 
message-ID in the attribution.  Do a search on Deja for "TCP Shield", and 
you'll see that he's done this before.

Clearly someone to trust, oh yes [note - that is sarcasm - I wouldn't trust 
a spammer, and wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that TCP Shield is 
another Back Orifice or Netbus in disguise.]

> To the point: if you're on a T-1, and the bad guy has 2000 zombies on
> cable modems asking for http://www.<your site>.com as fast as they
> possibly can, no host-based mechanism will help.  You are off line.

Clearly what he's advertising can't do what it claims - the remaining 
question is merely what it does do.

Alun.
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