McAfee 5 Water System User Manual


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