DOS Attack?

[Vid Vicious]

My Server is being DOS Attacked .. what does this mean .. In english Please

[Panky]

It's a hacker attack. "Denial of Service" attack. Makes your servers unusable to authorized users.



Panky

[Vid Vicious]

THanks Hun ... Does that make me Special?

[Panky]

Well, hell Vid, even the hackers luv ya!

Did you happen to piss anyone off lately?





I'm just kidding. Welcum to having a presence on the 'Net.


Panky

[StuartD]

A DOS does make you semi special... it's probably a DDOS tho... a distributed denial of service attack.

Basically, numb nut crackers go around putting trojans into news groups. Unsuspecting porn nabbers grab it and unwittingly install this thing on their machines.

Once they get enough trojans out there, on enough machines... preferrably on high speed, they can (from the comfort of their own home) press a button and force all of them to start sending junk packets at one destination all at once.... effectively filling up your bandwidth pipe, and making it so that good traffic (real people) can't get thru.

It's a tough attack to protect against... because depending on your ISP, it could be filling their pipe as well, or your pipe between you and them... or just clogging your machine in particular.. it's a nasty little weapon.

My solution... track the f*cker down and use my fav anti-virus weapon... a gun

[Vid Vicious]

thanks stuart and Panky .. I spoke to my tech guy last night and he is installing some porgram that will stop cheaters from hot Linking .. Don't know if this will stop this from happening .. yesterday my Server went down twice ! .. Ohwell, c'est la vie for being loved .. isn t that right Panky?

[wsjb78]

Hotlinking can easily be stopped with .htaccess (ok, only images and not movies or scripts resp. html files) but there's is now way I can think of to stop a DDOS Attack!

wsjb78

[Juge]

Go to www.grc.com to read all about Denial Of Service attacks.