Although this is about holes in the Windows OS, I'd be interested to know what those members of the list who know a bit about TCP etc. think about this, and if any of it applies to GNU/Linux.
Follow this link to read an absolutely fascinating story about a denial of service attack on an windows internet security expert's web site and what he did about it. http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
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