Smurf (disambiguation) - Definition and Overview

• A Smurf is a fictional tiny blue humanoid
• The verb "to smurf" is also a technical term related to money laundering. It has also been applied in a pun/parody form of the long-standing expression "surfing the web". An example of this can be found here (http://websmurfer.devnull.net/)
• A Smurf attack is a particular type of Denial of service (DoS) attack on computer networks.
• "smurfing" is also used in verb format to indicate the action of getting a song stuck into a listener's head by singing the same lines repeatedly. The Smurfs television show had what was considered very annoying theme music, involving repeated intonations of the word "La".
• Fans of Warhammer 40,000 sometimes jokingly refer to the Ultramarines as smurfs, due to their blue armor.
• A smurf is also an account registered at a forum or messageboard in addition to the user's regular one, often with the intent of disrupting the community. This is possibly more commonly known as a sock.