Flood

A flood may refer to any of the following:

1. With computers, networks, software, a flood is any information or data overflow that causes other users grief or causes other computers, hardware, or software to fail. For example, with a Denial of Service (DoS) attack, millions of invalid packets are sent to a network or server, causing it to slow down or fail.

2. Flood is another name for chat or forum spam.

Computer slang, DOS, Network terms, Overflow, Packet monkey, Security terms, Spam