Which one of the following threats does NOT rely on packet size or large volumes of data?

Which one of the following threats does NOT rely on packet size or large volumes of data?

A.
SYN flood

B.
Spam

C.
Ping of death

D.
Macro virus

Explanation:
SPAM – The term describing unwanted email, newsgroup, or discussion forum
messages. Spam can be innocuous as an advertisement from a well-meaning vendor or as
malignant as floods or unrequested messages with viruses or Trojan horses attached
SYN Flood Attack – A type of DoS. A Syn flood attack is waged by not sending the final ACK
packet, which breaks the standard three-way handshake used by TCP/IP to initiate communication

sessions.
Ping of death attack – A type of DoS. A ping of death attack employs an oversized ping packet.
Using special tools, an attacker can send numerous oversized ping packets to a victim. In many
cases, when the victimized system attempts to process the packets, an error occurs causing the
system to freeze, crash, or reboot.
Macro Viruses – A virus that utilizes crude technologies to infect documents created in the
Microsoft Word environment.
– Ed Tittle CISSP Study Guide (sybex) pg 550 740, 743, 723, 713