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Last week was quiet on the Windows security front. There was little excitement, unless you consider yet another piece of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack software to be a form of excitement.

The new code, "mstream," was found on a compromised computer at a major university. The discovery means that now a total of seven well-known DDoS tools are available on the Internet. Those seven packages include two versions of Tribal Flood Network (TFN), trinoo, two versions of stacheldraht, shaft, and the newly discovered mstream software.

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