Opens as many sockets with a remote host as can be supported by both. It catches ^C and kill commands to shut down cleanly by closing all open connections before exiting. Often, a remote workstation can be brought to its knees by saturating its process.
DoS.Octopus [Kaspersky]DoS/Octopus [Panda]FDoS-Octopus [McAfee]security risk or a "backdoor" program [F-Prot]Win32/DOS.Octopus.18729!Trojan [Computer Associates]
octopus.exe