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Flooder: A program that overloads a connection by any mechanism, such as fast pinging, causing a DoS attack. Backdoor: A secret or undocumented means of getting into a computer system, or software that uses such a means to penetrate a system. Some software has a backdoor placed by the programmer to allow them to gain access to troubleshoot or change the program. Software that is classified as a "backdoor" is designed to exploit a vulnerability in a system, and open it to future access by an attacker. IRC War: Any tool that uses Internet Relay Chat for spoofing, eavesdropping, sniffing, spamming, breaking passwords, harassment, fraud, forgery, 'imposturing', electronic trespassing, tampering, hacking, nuking, system contamination including without limitation use of viruses, worms and Trojan horses causing unauthorized, damaging or harmful access and/or retrieval of information and data on your computer and other forms of activity that may even be considered unlawful. |
Similar Pests: |
Flooder · Backdoor · IRC War |
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Date of Origin: |
April, 2004 |
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Manual Removal: |
Follow these steps to remove Backdoor.IRC.Flood.f from your machine. Begin by backing up your registry and your system, and/or setting a Restore Point, to prevent trouble if you make a mistake. |
| Stop Running Processes: Kill these running processes with Task Manager: | |
| Remove Files: Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer: | |
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Last Revised: |
October 20, 2004 |