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On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:09:47PM -0400, Derek D. Martin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > And the difference between attacking and probing is - what? - > > Generally speaking (though this may or may not be what Bill meant), > the difference between a probe and an attack is the former is only a > test to see if compromise is possible, while the latter is an actual > attempt to compromise. I agree with that definition, but suspected (correctly, it turned out) that Bill had a different one. It was an attack, but it wasn't a personal attack - just a garden-variety IIS worm looking for victims. Nathan
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