In response to a number of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that have been reported, the National Infrastructure Proctection Center (NIPC) Special Technology Applications Unit (STAU) has developed a tool to assist in combating this threat. ``find_ddos'' is intended to scan a local system that is either known or suspected to contain a DDOS program. ``find_ddos'' will detect tfn2k client, tfn2k daemon, trinoo daemon, trinoo master, tfn daemon, tfn client, stacheldraht master, stacheldraht client, stachelddraht demon and tfn-rush client. WWW: http://www.fbi.gov/nipc/trinoo.htm