In a final effort to sway Microsoft, a security researcher has released a new tool that he says proves Windows XP is unsafe. Steve Gibson, president of Gibson Research Corporation, today posted on his Web site a free utility called SocketToMe. . . .
In a final effort to sway Microsoft, a security researcher has released a new tool that he says proves Windows XP is unsafe. Steve Gibson, president of Gibson Research Corporation, today posted on his Web site a free utility called SocketToMe. The program, co-authored by Collake Software, enables Windows users to determine whether their computer has an advanced networking technology called "raw sockets."

Gibson has been on a crusade all summer to convince Microsoft to drop raw socket support from the home edition of its forthcoming Windows XP operating system. Gibson fears the technology will enable hackers who penetrate an XP machine to send untraceable, malicious floods of data to other sites as part of a denial of service attack.

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