Iceape

Recently I encountered a situation with Iceweasel that required a temporary work-around. For whatever reason at times people like to mess with me, that is why I went Linux. While using Iceape I got flooded with Syn's DDos or whatever they were using. The odd thing was that after realizing the occurrence using netstat, I had over 500 dropped attempts on about 5 different connections. I did an "ifdown eth0", killed the browser - and waited for everybody to go away. However, all connections did not terminate. The ones holding the flood remained. Then i did a "netstat --programs and found that they were still connected to Iceape-Bin. I had to kill that process specifically to terminate the connections, even though the browser was closed. It could simply be that this is how things work. I could have done a reboot, but this is how I learn. This is also why I do not mess with a certain company's products. I am paranoid about built-in backdoors. I know who the connections are, easy enough to look-up... many such tools available. OS = Debian FYI.

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