Overview
Category:
Flooder: A program that overloads a connection by any mechanism, such as fast pinging, causing a DoS attack.
Similar Pests:
Origins
Date of Origin:
Distribution
Prevalence:
Clot Factor:
The "Clot Factor" is a measure of how much a pest "gums up" a machine by adding registry entries, files, and directories. As more objects are placed in a machine, manual removal becomes more difficult and more error-prone.
Countries Affected:
Operation
Storage Required:
Detection and Removal
Automatic Removal:
PestPatrol detects this.
PestPatrol removes this.
Manual Removal:
Kill these running processes with Task Manager:
Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:
Research
File Analyses:
- Flooder.MailSpam.VB.k: RIP 1.0.exe