Spyware Information: Port Flooder
This application is a denial-of-service (DOS) system. It will send malformed communication to web sites in order to bring them down. Denial-of-service attacks have been used successfully against some of the largest web sites (including Yahoo and CNN) as a show of force, and have even been used to shut down software companies that fight spyware!
If you're not a hacker and don't have any connection to DOS attacks, you should not be surprised if Port Flooder is on your computer. DOS attacks only work when a large number of computers take part in them simultaneously, so hackers must break into a large number of computers to install DOS software. Many DOS tools are distributed by viruses. This lets their authors launch massive coordinated attacks from many unsuspecting computers.
- Size: 41,984 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 1 this month: 0
- Author: Lame_Joker
- Others by this author: Ghost 2.0, Ghost, Ghost 2.2, Ghost 2.1, Ghost 2.4a, Ghost 2.3, Ghost Server Binder 2.2, Ghost Mini-Server 2.3, TSAD
- Appeared: August, 2001
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,653
- Detections this Month: 800
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