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A network-based attack where the attacker(s) send out false ICMP echo requests that appear to originate from the IP address of the machine or network under attack. This type of attack can be used to flood a network or device with "responses" to the false ICMP requests.
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Smurf Attack - On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:12:13 -0500, Morton Fulman wrote:You know, there's no worse feeling than when you realize you've beenhad, taken, played for a sucker. Wanting a Word 6 compatible wordprocessor, their suite sounded enticing, so I bought, downloaded,installed, registered. Well, today, I used the word processor for thefirst time.After an hour of composing, I suddenly got the "this program hasperformed an illegal operation" window. A subsequent window promisedbackup file availablilty, but when I checked the backup folder it wasempty. My system is dated, PII233, but has 386 Mb memory, and is verystable, not normally crashing like this.I'm out my money, time to download, install, register, and wasted timeon a composition.I feel scammed, betrayed, swindled. I'm deleting the piece of crap,and writing off the purchase price as a lesson in NOT buying softwareon the net.I hope these pukes go bankrupt or get SARS. If I buy a toaster, Iexpect it to make toast when I plug it in at home. If I buy an officesuite, I expect it to do what is promised.God curse these assholes who flog products that aren't even tested.------------------------------You could have just used WordPad (comes with Windows) and saved thefile in RTF format, compatible with any version of Word, WordPerfect,etc...(Remove mypants to reply by email)
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