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Description:
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]

Category:
Flooder
DoS

Automatic Removal: Most effective removal tool is: Easy SpyRemover

Manual Removal:



Stop Runnin Processes:
octopus.exe



Unregister DLLs:
Unknown


Clean Registry:
Unknown


Remove Files:
octopus.c
octopus.exe

   


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