Kaspersky Lab kaspersky anti-hacker 1.7 User Manual

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Enabling the Security System and Defining its Settings
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Fig. 35. The Intrusion Detection System page of the Settings dialog box 
6.5.2. The List of Detectable Attacks 
Kaspersky Anti-Hacker is able to detect the most commonly used DoS attacks 
(SYN Flood, UDP Flood, ICMP Flood),  the Ping of death,  Land, Helkern, 
SmbDie, and Lovesan 
attacks, and also to detect port scanning operations, 
which are usually followed by a more powerful attack: 
•  The Ping of death attack involves sending of an ICMP packet exceeding 
64 KB (threshold value) to your computer. It may result in emergency 
shutdown of some operating systems.