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    Unhappy Help!!

    i recently detected a smurf attack on my firewall log
    what is this? and what should i do the next time this happens?

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    You won't believe this, but Mr. Google did it AGAIN!!! Bam! TouchDown!

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    thanks for the link to the Cert Centre it is useful
    Mike M aka greyhairedwolf
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    Mr.Google?

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    Yups, Mr. Google...
    You can find him here

    Also meet his family:

    Open Directory Project
    Yahoo
    LookSmart
    IxQuick
    Ask Jeeves
    About
    All the Web
    Altavista
    Hotbot
    Northern Light
    Teoma
    WebCrawler
    Direct Hit
    Disinformation
    DogPile

    Edit: added Dogpile (Thx Wolf)

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    Yups, Mr. Google...


    chuckle
    I\'m not a BOT I\'m a beer droid!
    Prepare to be Assimilated.

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    Smurfs...Not just little blue cartoon characters

    Did you get the info that you need if not here is a simple explanation thanks to the folks at Symantec.

    Symantec Security Response
    http://securityresponse.symantec.com/



    Smurf DoS Attack
    Ping is a software tool available on most operating systems and commonly used to check if a specified machine is reachable. When the ping tool is executed, an ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) echo request packet (includes the return IP address) is sent to the destination computer. If the destination computer receives the TCP packet, it replies to confirm the ping request.
    In the case of a Smurf DoS attack, the ping's packet return IP address is forged with the IP of the targeted machine. The ping is issued to the entire IP broadcast address. This causes every machine to respond to the bogus ping packets and reply to the targeted machine, which floods it.

    This is called a Smurf attack because the DoS tool used to perform the attack is called Smurf.

    One way to reduce risk of this attack is to disable IP-directed broadcast, which is often not used or needed. Some OS can be even be configured to prevent the machine from responding to ICMP packets.


    Type: Virus
    Write-up by: Motoaki Yamamura


    And if we are adding search engines of our list or resources Neg that I have to add DogPile
    Mike M aka greyhairedwolf
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    Eight Words The Wiccan Rede Fulfills
    \"An it harm none do what you will\"
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    Arrow

    Originally posted by Negative
    Yups, Mr. Google...
    You can find him here
    Also meet his family:
    Open Directory Project

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    DogPile
    I find it pretty useless thing to list search engines... Google finds everything, and if it's not enough, you can use All the Web, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo or, a new list entry, Researchville.

    -ZeroOne
    Q: Why do computer scientists confuse Christmas and Halloween?
    A: Because Oct 31 = Dec 25

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