Absent Directory Browser Argument DoS

Overview

Category

DoS: An exploit whose purpose is to deny somebody the use of the service: namely to crash or hang a program or the entire system. Examples of DoS attacks include flooding the victim with more traffic than can be handled; flooding a service (like IRC) with more events than it can handle bomb; crashing a TCP/IP stack by sending corrupt packets; crashing a service by interacting with it in an unexpected way; or hanging a system by causing it to go into an infinite loop. For example, the Ping of Death exploit crashed machines by sending illegally fragmented packets at a victim. A common word for DoS is ""nuke"", which was first popularized by the WinNuke program.

Origins

Author

VIGILANTe

Others By This Author

HP Jetdirect - Invalid FTP Command DoS · HP Jetdirect multiple DoS Exploit · Intel Express Switch series 500 DoS #1 · Intel Express Switch series 500 DoS #2 · Invalid URL DoS · Lotus Domino ESMTP Service Buffer overflow · Mdaemon Web Services Heap Overflow DoS · Netscape Enterprise Server for NetWare Virtual Directory Vulnerability · NTMail Configuration Service DoS · OS/2 Warp 4.5 FTP Server DoS · Watchguard Firebox Authentication DoS · WinCOM LPD DoS ·

Date of Origin

July, 2000

Detection and Removal

Manual Removal

Follow these steps to remove Absent Directory Browser Argument DoS from your machine. Begin by backing up your registry and your system, and/or setting a Restore Point, to prevent trouble if you make a mistake.

Remove Files:

Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:

Abraxas.1171 Abraxas.1200.B Abraxas.1219 Abraxas.1508.A Abraxas.1518.A AbsentDirectoryBrowserArgumentDoS AbsoluteKeyLogger Absturz1.0 Abuse Acad_boot