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FDoS-Phasma

Type
Malware
SubType
Denial Of Svc
Discovery Date
08/26/2003
Length
192,512 Bytes
Minimum DAT
4290 (08/28/2003)
Updated DAT
4376 (07/14/2004)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
09/26/2003
Description Modified
09/26/2003 6:43 AM (PT)
Risk Assessment
Corporate User
Low
Home User
Low

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Characteristics

This threat is detected as FDoS-Phasma.  This is a flooder attack tool, often used by an attacker by to e-mail bomb/flood, allowing one to manually send e-mail bombs to a target recipient.  It is not an automatic spreading e-mail virus.

Symptoms

N/A This is an attack tool, which does not cause any damage to the local system.

Method of Infection

N/A This program does not save copies of itself or configure itself to load at startup.

Removal

All Users:
Use current engine and DAT files for detection. Delete any file which contains this detection.

Variants

Variants

    N/A

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Overview -

Characteristics

Characteristics -

This threat is detected as FDoS-Phasma.  This is a flooder attack tool, often used by an attacker by to e-mail bomb/flood, allowing one to manually send e-mail bombs to a target recipient.  It is not an automatic spreading e-mail virus.

Symptoms

Symptoms -

N/A This is an attack tool, which does not cause any damage to the local system.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

N/A This program does not save copies of itself or configure itself to load at startup.

Removal -

Removal -

All Users:
Use current engine and DAT files for detection. Delete any file which contains this detection.

Variants

Variants -

    N/A