Re: Denial of Service Attack
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:18:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Denial of Service Attack | ||
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On Fri, July 20, 2007 8:01 pm, tedd wrote:
> At 9:17 PM +0200 7/20/07, Sascha Braun, CEO @ ejackup.com wrote:
>>Today I was writing an E-Mail here in the List
>>since that time, my webserver detects a virus
>>which is described as a denial of service attack.
>>
>>Thank you fellows!
>>
>>This is really a reliable list.
>
>
> When does a virus cause a denial of service attack?
When it infects a whole lot of computers and instructs ALL of them to
visit the same URL.
This is not uncommon, not by a long shot.
Google "distributed denial of service DDOS" for way more info than you
really want.
--
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Know what I want?
I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist.
http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch
Yeah, I get a buck. So?