Possible attack; opinions wanted

[Nathan Meyers]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:09:47PM -0400, Derek D. Martin wrote:
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> > And the difference between attacking and probing is - what? -
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> 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