Spyware Information: Flooder.SMS.Simple
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 Flooder.SMS.Simple 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: 201,728 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 18 this month: 0
- Author: Blade
- Others by this author: The Thing, Mini Command 2.0.3, Mini Command 2.0.2, Mini Command 1.3a beta, Trojan Hunter 1.5, The Thing 1.11, The Thing 1.1, Thing 1.6.d, Thing 1.2, Thing 1.0, Thing, The Thing 1.6, The Thing 1.5, Blade Joiner, Blade Bogart, Blade Joiner 1.55, Blade Joiner 1.0, Blade Runner 0.80A, Blade Runner, Joiner 1.0, Joiner, Joiner 1.55s, Joiner 1.5, The Thing 1.2, The Thing 1.12, Mini Command 1.2, Mini Command 1.1, Mini Command 1.0, Mini Command
- Appeared: September, 2001
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,657
- Detections this Month: 804
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