1. Nuking & Euphoria nuke blocker
>Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 23:29:07 -0400
>From: Alan Tu <ATU5713 at COMPUSERVE.COM>
>Subject: Re: Ideas and Votes!!
>RE: What's nuking?
"Nuking" is when your modem is flooded with data; it's one type
of denial of service attack.
>I've never had this experience, then again I don't chat over the
>Web.
It happens all the time in IRC. In fact, it happended to me just
yesterday. What happens once you are nuked ranges from being kicked out
of IRC to crashing altogether, depending on the severity of the flood.
There is no sure way to tell if you're being nuked; even if you did find
out, it'd be too late anyway. One way is to look at your modem lights (on
an external); if they go beserk, then you're being flooded.
There are patches you can get for Windows (3.x,95,NT), and those might
save you depending on the flood type. You can read all about this on:
http://www.ircweb.com/
http://www.irchelp.com/
>Isn't everything you see on a browser screen first transmitted
>through the modem? Not everything literally, but most of the
>material? So the nuke either gets transmitted or is doesn't. If
>someone decies to overload your modem with 10k worth of garbage,
>you would have to have a valve that triggers after some nuclear
>explosion, no matter how small.
First of all, when you get nuked, it's usually in IRC or something
related, so there is no "browser", just your client software.
And in order to nuke someone, you can't do it thru that client; it must
be done outside in an external program.
Blocking nukes is only handled by firewalls as far as I've seen. They
allow you to block incoming packets, such as the ones recieved in a nuke
attack. I don't think you could protect yourself from nukes with a
Euphoria program... maybe *detect* them, but not *protect* from them.
----->Buddy
budmeister1 at juno.com
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