Pingflood attack against Windows98

[fboliva () SAFENETWORKS COM (Fabio Bastiglia Oliva)]

rewt wrote:
> Try pinging the windows box with large amounts of icmp...I left 5
> screened pings, each set to 65000 size...Windows will freeze shortly
> after its loaded. You might also try to ping with -f.

Hey...
        I made what you suggested, and it's true... But in my case the
results were a little worse than yours...
        Windows 98 *REBOOTED* after a ping -f 65000... and wasn't need
to make several screen boxes... With only one ping -f 65000 the system
rebooted.

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