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Re: distributed denial of service attack
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Thu, 2 Oct 2003 02:31:37 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Amy Hughes wrote:
> I believe the recent "distributed denial of service attack" was SWEN. I was
> getting copies of that from all over the world to my lugnews address, and only
> to my lugnews address, until you moved ports. That shut off the incoming viri
> like a switch. I suspect the payload included a list of news servers to check
> for addresses.
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> Amy
So THAT's what was going on! I got over 2200 .swen virus emails in the 10 days
or so preceding the closing of that port, and then, as you mentioned, they
stopped like a switch had been flipped.
Thanks so much for fixing that, Todd!
Adrian
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http://www.brickfrenzy.com
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