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Monday, July 28, 2008

DoS.Win32.DieWar

Aliases
DoS.Win32.DieWar (Kaspersky Lab) is also known as: DDoS-Diewa (McAfee), Hacktool (Symantec), Troj/Ussr-War (Sophos), DDoS:DieWA170 (RAV), TROJ_DDOS_DIEWAR (Trend Micro), Trojan.DDOS.Diewa.1.7.0 (SOFTWIN), Flooder.Diewa (ClamAV), Trj/DoS.DieWar (Panda), Win32/DDoS.DieWar (Eset)

Technical details
This program is a realized DoS attack on one of the more popular ftp-servers for Windows 95/98/NT - War-FTPD v1.70. It makes many connections to an ftp-server resulting in a denial of service. This program also can disturb the operation of other ftp's in a Unix system - wu-ftpd, proftpd, ftpd-BSD.

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