From: Peter Sawatzki 

In article , georger{at}nls.net says...
> "Rich"  wrote in message news:3ef36805{at}w3.nls.net...
> >   I didn't misunderstand the incorrect "Windows size"
reference either.
> For some reason Joe left out the portion of the quoted article that
> identified it as Linux specific which would have made it clear.<
>
> I've seen discussions that there may be more than one version, so it's not
> clear yet if it's just limited to linux.

As I understand it there is also a version for Windows that also sends
these packets. But the intention of the Windows version is to
obfuscate/hide the (dangerous) Linux version. This was what c't reported
(www.heise.de, in German), but marked as uncertain knowledge.

Peter

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