Your computer's time server conn might be helping attackers

ringtail

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Mar 10, 2012
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As I understand it your computer's facility to synchronize itself with a public time server can be invisibly used by 3rd party hackers running denial of service attacks. You'd never know your computer is being used that way.
Read just 1st paragraph here
The remediation is discussed here: BCP38.info.