slapper worm

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 15:42 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Umm, what does "there DOS attacking people"? I had problems
> parsing that. 

Denial Of Service.  Flooding your system with bunk data so that no other
valid data can get in or out of your network.  Makes your system look
like it has dropped off the face of the Internet.

-- 
Jesse Keating RHCE      (geek.j2solutions.net)
Fedora Legacy Team      (www.fedoralegacy.org)
GPG Public Key          (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub)
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