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Performance of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Apple’s Leopard Computers under a Denial of Service Attack SUMMARY Abstract Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks are increasing over the Internet. DDOS attacks were launched on servers belonging to US and South Korean government. DDOS attacks are now considered a prominent threat to the internet. ICMP is used to diagnose and report any error in a network. ICMP is used by a user to verify the end to end Internet Path operation, where ICMP Echo Reply packet to confirm that host is alive in the network. IP Spoofing forms a platform for larger of DOS attacks. When a victim computer is flooded with ICMP Echo Requests...