Subj: They are mere placeholders, to be swept aside like dust before a Swiffer. Thus swears THE MODERATOR!Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 at 12:43:37 pm EST
| Reply Subj: Hmm. He's been replaced by Vizh, Hat, and Shep up there in the corner. My money's on them.
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 at 11:04:10 am EST |
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> > > If you noticed, at times the board has been loading slowly or not at all. There's a very simple reason for this: A Distributed Denial of Service attack.
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> > > Yesterday there was another attempted break-in at the server. When that break-in was stopped, it seems someone out there decided that if they can't break in it was time to take down this server; so since then, an army of zombie PC's have been bombarding this server with garbage requests in an effort to make it inaccessible.
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> > > But that's not the strangest part. The target of those attacks is this very site, the Parodyverse Message Board - apparently we've offended someone out there. This attack also affects Comicboards, Snarkbait, etc.
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> > > At the moment the server support people are working to stop it. If they fail I still have one trick up my sleeve - I own several other domains which aren't being attacked, and I can move the PVB to one of them in a matter of minutes (not counting the time notifying everyone of the move).
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