I can not ping my external address. I can ping anywhere from internal address. e.g. ping yahoo.com successful from internal IP. If I ping my external IP from outside it fails.
It was a later revision of the blaster worm designed to clean up an infected PC, but it used ping to discover infected host so made the situation worse. Also known as welchia. See:
Nope its strictly a windows 2000/XP problem, but at the time a lot of networks stopped pings at the border becasue compromised windows hosts where flooding the network.
Nope its strictly a windows 2000/XP problem, but at the time a lot of networks stopped pings at the border becasue compromised windows hosts where flooding the network.