Originally Posted by drtravix
Welcome to FlyerTalk. No, I would not suggest shutting down FT for the day just because of this.
The ping attacks that were mentioned are fairly old, and almost all newer versions of Windows, Unix, etc are immune to this. However, if you are running a version of Windows which is old enough to have the ping vulnerability, you have plenty of other problems to worry about - ones that can do much more damage than the "ping of death" attack.
Maybe I phrased this wrong. Ping is what Zone Alarm called it. We are running XP pro on all computers. The alert from Zone Alarm states "port 137 vulnerability" "file sharing needs to be password protected". That is a direct attack on our network and only happens when connected to FT. Suggestions anyone.