DoS.Perl.Raden

Technical Details

This malicious program is designed to conduct Denial of Service attacks on a remote server. The program itself is a malicious script written in Perl. It is approximately 2300 bytes in size.

Payload

This malicious program exploits an error in the processing of multiple connections to FTP servers in order to conduct a DoS attack on the remote machine.

This malicious program may cause applications running on the node under attack to suffer reduced performance in supporting network connections and a lack of system resources.

Removal instructions

If your computer does not have an up-to-date antivirus, or does not have an antivirus solution at all, follow the instructions below to delete the malicious program:

1. Delete the original malicious program file (the location will depend on how the program originally penetrated the victim machine).
2. Update your antivirus databases and perform a full scan of the computer (download a trial version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus).