Opens as many sockets with a remote host as
can be supported by both. It catches ^C and kill
commands to shut down cleanly by closing all open
connections before exiting. Often, a remote
workstation can be brought to its knees by
saturating its process.
Alias:
DoS.Octopus [Kaspersky]
DoS/Octopus [Panda]
FDoS-Octopus [McAfee]
security risk or a
"backdoor" program [F-Prot]
Win32/DOS.Octopus.18729!Trojan [Computer
Associates]
