McAfee Firewall
Attack | Description | Risk |
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UDP Flood | A remote denial of service attack designed to flood the target machine with | High |
| more data than it can process, thereby preventing legitimate connections |
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| from being established. |
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| Machine is inaccessible via TCP/IP. Occurs when machine is put to sleep |
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| and then awakened. |
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| Make sure that “Load Only When Needed” is not checked in the TCP/IP |
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| control panel. Then TCP/IP is loaded all the time, allowing McAfee Firewall |
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| to function while the machine is asleep. |
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Winnuke | This attack is a Denial of Service (DoS) attack that completely disables | High |
| networking on many Win95 and WinNT machines. Although Winnuke will |
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| not necessarily damage your computer, you may lose any unsaved data at |
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| the time of the attack. Restarting your computer should restore full |
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| operation. |
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88 McAfee Internet Security 5.0
