But getting to my real questions- I'm getting a fair amount of spam posts in which the title is almost unreadable junk like the following:
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Can anyone tell me what causes that sort of thing?
The spammers do it intentionally. I'm not sure if it's to fool ISP's anti-spam filters by ensuring that each recipient gets a unique subject line, or if it's to fool the recipient into opening the message to determine if it's a mangled message from a friend. Or maybe it's a deceptive method of tracking recipients so that the spammer can target trouble-makers who try to get his account cancelled. But regardless, I see the same thing all the time, so it's not unique to you.
And the second question involves something that my firewall software seems to protect me from, but I don't know what it means and why I need the protection.
Now and then I get a notice that I have been the subject of a "ping flooding" attack. As directed by my preferences, the intruder is put in a stop list so he can't do it again (I guess). Could someone explain what ping flooding is, and why I should care?
You might want to do a search for "ping flood" for a better description. But from what I remember, a ping flood occurs when your computer receives a large amount of ping requests with a forged and invalid return address. The load of both responding to the forged ping requests and handling the bounces from the invalid address causes your computer to slow to a crawl and possibly crash.
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