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Rootshell vs. DoS

If StackGhost saves a network daemon from a successful attack, it should abort the network daemon. A rootshell exploit will just be converted into a denial of service exploit since the daemon will be down. This behavior is an added incentive to remedy the underlying problems, instead of just mitigating exploit.



2001-05-12