Re: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?

[Pat Barber <MBOCEANSIDE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PAOLO YABUT wrote:
> 
> BOB,
>         I think they were prepare it just hard to fight something that you
> cannot see...specially if its coming from multiple places (from what Zdnet
> say at least 1000+ pc s attacked at the same time...its intimidating to
> think that you have 1000+ hackers doing this from all over the world
> conducting this attacks simultaneously.....

They didn't... The most likely story is that a "few" hackers placed a
time and date delayed message "sender" at some popular download site
and thousands of folks over a period of time picked up that little
jewell along with whatever code they were trying to get. At the
appointed
time and date as folks fired up their email, they ended up sending that
one extra mail message and most didn't even know it. ZDNET is a very
likely
source of this sort of thing..."FREE SOFTWARE" just click on
download......
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