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SMS-Flooder

ALIAS:SMS Flooder

Summary

SMS Flooder (generic description)

An SMS Flooder is a trojan that sends a massive amount of SMS messages to a single or multiple targets. A big amount of SMS messages can cause a lot of inconvenience and annoyance and in some cases crash specific hardware or perform a denial of service attack on a service.

Most famous SMS flooders: HellBomber, ICQSms, Bomber, SMS-Bomber, MobilKiller.

Disinfection

Allow F-Secure Anti-Virus to disinfect the relevant files.

For more general information on disinfection, please see Removal Instructions.

Additional Details

Writeup: Alexey Podrezov, July 14th, 2003;

Description Updated: Alexey Podrezov, May 24th, 2004;