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morficus

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glad to see that everything is back up and running - and in such a timely fashion too

good job guys :yes:

Lets just say you don't attack a website with some of the best techies around :p

You may just find them on your doorstep, and not very happy lol

somebody seems way to eager to fight :p

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JMann Veteran

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Your link just takes me to https://www.neowin.net as if the article isn't found? :huh:

You posted this - https://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&a...gain)%252005-25

I suspect the thread is linked to a staff only/restricted permissions area? I get the same error where it redirects to 'Neowin.net'. :)

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Barney T. Administrators

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I suspect the thread is linked to a staff only/restricted permissions area? I get the same error where it redirects to 'Neowin.net'. :)

That must be, because the link works for me. Anyways, the story was posted:

Neobond wrote on 25 May 2003:

Right now Neowin is swamped, slow, and sometimes gives "Server too busy" messages. This started a couple of hours ago and I expect this to continue for as long as the datacenter (rackshack) allows it and eventually pulls the plug (routing to our server). This is caused by yet another DoS (Denial of Service) attack where a person is sending 1000's of packets to common ports on our server (in this case apache) The person doing this goes by the name of kidd0 who is 12 years old (yea I know). He was banned for breaking the rules some time ago and has since recruited another member from Neowin who relayed threats and admissions of previous DoS attacks for kidd0 until he was also banned from here. Additionally the site has also started to use newslogos from Neowin without permission or credit yet surprisingly they do source some of our news stories.

I don't usually post information relating to these types of attacks but since they are happening too frequently lately with no end in sight and resulting in downtime of up to 48 hours for some visitors I felt it was only fair to tell everyone why they can't browse the site properly. kidd0 has made no secret and has admitted at a number of sites for being responsible for downtimes at Neowin and other sites.

Its a shame that this kid has way too much power (controls some sort of zombie trojan on 1000's of infected PC's) and nothing better to do than destroy the same type of community that he appears to duplicate at his own site. I feel pretty powerless and fed up at the same time. So if I don't answer your emails or PM's demanding to know why you can't get to the site or why your IP was "blocked" its because the routing will be disabled again which means there will be downtime before people can access the site again.

IPS (Invision Power Services, our host) are aware of this, so please don't bother to bombard them with emails, they are also doing what they can to rectify the situation.

On behalf of the Neowin Team, Thanks for your continued patience and support, I hope this is sorted soon.

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Andrew Lyle Global Moderator

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how the hell can a kid of 12 do summin like that??? you sure he was actually 12?

i wouldnt even know where to begin to do that rnow at 21 :o lol

Google, a grudge, Pixie sticks, and too much Coca Cola make an evil combination. If you can learn how to make a bomb online, you can find out how to DoS attack someone

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DrunknMunky Veteran

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how the hell can a kid of 12 do summin like that??? you sure he was actually 12?

i wouldnt even know where to begin to do that rnow at 21 :o lol

There is plenty of places to find out the info needed. To be fair thoguh Neowin was taken off guard and it was the first attack against the site iirc. Or at least the first "big" attack. The company hosting it didn't exactly act quickly on the matter too I think?

Was quite a while ago now..

I don't know what you are talking about. :whistle:

Really? I heard you were the ring leader behind the "witch hunt" ;P

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Any idea when the forum will return to normal? Currently having major issues reading the forum, it does one of three things

1. Times out

2. Displays the forum thread with no formatting (makes for interesting reading and deciphering)

3. Takes more than 9 gazillion hours to load a thread.

In all seriousness is this just down to the amount of new users, topics, replies and everything else under the sun relating to Windows 7 and other general use of the forum?

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Andrew Lyle Global Moderator

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Strange, I am just left with loading pages still, no matter what forum/subforum I am in... :/

May try restarting a few things :(

The forum seems very responsive on my end. You might want to refresh or clear your cache. Might help

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