DOS attacks

[Erwin]

Over the past few hours Foru.ms was subject to a concentrated DOS attack.

The server tech has blocked these IPs finally.

Thank you all for your patience.

 

[super mom]

thanks erwin i thought it was my computer

 

[Sylvanspirits]

So that's what it was. to all you guys who finally stopped it.

 

[FriendsFellowship]

Thanks for letting us know what's up Erwin!

 

[OldShepherd]

FYI DOS means Denial Of Service such as bombarding a website with a great number of contacts so much so that the servers are overwhelmed thus denying legitimate persons from accessing the site.

 

[Letalis]

Hmm.. they were a little late. I thought this was going to happen a few days ago.

 

[kiwimac]

I was wondering why Disk Operating System attacks were happening only realised as I was reading that it was Denial of Service. Can you tell I've mucked about with computers for a wee while?

 

[MN John]

That's so sad.

Thanks for dealing with it Erwin, Lee, and associates!

 

[longhair75]

I was wondering why Disk Operating System attacks were happening only realised as I was reading that it was Denial of Service. Can you tell I've mucked about with computers for a wee while?

I wondered the same thing.

 

[kiwimac]

Sometimes I feel very old.

 

[Taylor43]

Thanks for dealing with it

 

[r911steven]

There was another ddos attack. It is now resolved again.

 

[Petunia]

FYI DOS means Denial Of Service such as bombarding a website with a great number of contacts so much so that the servers are overwhelmed thus denying legitimate persons from accessing the site.

Thank you for explaining. I had heard of it before awhile back. Now I remember talk of it happening a few years ago to another forum.

This is a very vindictive and spiteful thing for anyone to do.

 

[meebs]

I was wondering why Disk Operating System attacks were happening only realised as I was reading that it was Denial of Service.

I thought the same

 

[RedTulipMom]

what is a DOS attack. What exactly are people doing?

 

[FriendsFellowship]

In a Denial Of Service attack, a person or program directs a single computer or a group of computers to repeatedly request multiple pages or files from a target website.

Generally so many requests are directed at the target website that the web server gets jammed and normal web traffic is disrupted.

 

[RedTulipMom]

In a Denial Of Service attack, a person or program directs a single computer or a group of computers to repeatedly request multiple pages or files from a target website.

Generally so many requests are directed at the target website that the web server gets jammed and normal web traffic is disrupted.

ok thanks

 

[Orchids]

It's actually called a DoS rather than a DOS attack.

Anyway, thanks for dealing with it, everyone. I never understood why anyone would do something like that - as it doesn't really mean anything, and certainly does not add anything positive in life (theirs).

 

[Angeldove97]

Awesome, glad it was taken care of.

 

[meebs]

It's actually called a DoS rather than a DOS attack.

Anyway, thanks for dealing with it, everyone. I never understood why anyone would do something like that - as it doesn't really mean anything, and certainly does not add anything positive in life (theirs).

They might find it fun or they do it just because they can? Or maybe they had something against the site?

There could be many reasons.