What are Flooders?

Flooders are malicious programs that attempt to overload a connection by sending various intrusive attacks, in order to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended user.

Examples of the various attacks implemented to overload a connection are as follows:

• Denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack). Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or persons to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and even root nameservers.
• A ping of death (abbreviated “POD”) is a type of attack on a computer that involves sending a malformed or otherwise malicious ping to a computer. Traditionally, this bug has been relatively easy to exploit. Generally, sending a 65,536 byte ping packet is illegal according to networking protocol, but a packet of such a size can be sent if it is fragmented; when the target computer reassembles the packet, a buffer overflow can occur, which often causes a system crash.
• The Smurf attack (or ICMP attack) is a way of generating a lot of computer network traffic on a victim network. This is a type of denial-of-service attack that floods a target system via spoofed broadcast ping messages.

List of Flooders Parasites:

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» Deadly Network Flood
Deadly Network Flood overloads the user's internet connection by pinging. This results in a DoS (denial-of-service) attack. A server is incessantly pinged until it crashes from the massive amounts of information. Numerous DoS tools are spread by viruses. Hackers enter user computers on a large scale ...
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» Black Hawk
Black Hawk is a flooder which is a program that overloads an internet connection by methods such as pinging. This results in a DoS attack. The servers are "flooded" with huge amounts of useless data with the purpose of bringing down a website and making it ...
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» AnOrkyS MSN TOOLZ
AnOrkyS MSN TOOLZ is a 'small' MSN flooder created for disrupting the users MSN Messenger work. The AnOrkyS MSN TOOLZ flooder sends huge amounts of useless data to jam the MSN channel. As traffic is flooded the internet connection speed is slowed down significantly and renders ...
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» FloodBot
FloodBot is a flooder designed to flood in chat-programs. These types of programs attack IRC channels with huge amounts of worthless data and traffic in order to dramatically reduce internet speed or to jam the channel thus making it inoperable. Some flooders have the "nucker" capability ...
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» Ashaden Pinger
Ashaden Pinger is a flooder, which is a program that overloads an internet connection by methods such as fast pinging, that causes a DoS attack. The Ashaden Pinger constantly sends files to the IP or URL inundating it to the point in which it causes a ...
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» AngryPing
AngryPing is created as a Trojan which mimics a flooder by overloading the user's internet connection with massive amounts of useless data. This may result in a DoS attack which can take down a website. DoS attacks are successful when many PC's are used simultaneously in ...
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» Flooder.Chat.VB.c
Flooder.Chat.VB.c. is a flooder that overloads the users internet connection by pinging. This causes a DoS attack which jams and floods the server with worthless data and traffic; thereby making the network unable to function. Some flooders may have the ability to install a "backdoor" which ...
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» Databound 1.0
Databound 1.0 is a useless application claiming to test the user's vulnerability to a UDP flood. In actuality Databound 1.0 is malware and a worthless program.... Databound 1.0 is a useless application claiming to test the user's vulnerability to a UDP flood. In actuality ...
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» Flooder.AOL.Ikobur
Flooder.AOL.Ikobur overloads an internet connection by pinging which results in a DoS attack. These type of malicious attacks by hackers prevent users from using a website or service. Servers can be jammed or corrupted by such methods. Flooders may also be used for e-mail flooding.... ...
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» Boo Bomber 2
Boo Bomber 2 is an application that overloads the connection by pinging. Pinging is a mechanism in which a weblog discloses to a server that it has updated its content. When an application overloads a connection it causes a DoS attack. A DoS attack is a ...
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