Kazaa and eDonkey brace for attack from Netsky

Wobbel · 04-07-2004, 03:23 AM

The Netsky worm is due to launch a DDoS attack on file-sharing sites such as Kazaa and eDonkey on Wednesday morning
File-sharing Web sites Kazaa and eDonkey are bracing for a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack starting on Wednesday that will be launched by a clutch of new variants of the Netsky worm.

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lordpake · 04-07-2004, 03:06 PM

Call me stupid but what exactly is the idea behind this? Pure evil intent? So what if your virii knocks out some little websites, where's the challenge in it? You get better publicity by attacking bigger sites, real companies behind them. Or is that too difficult/dangerous for these coders?

04-07-2004, 03:23 AM	#1 (permalink)
Wobbel PCTT's Gatherer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: 2004 Posts: 2,861	Kazaa and eDonkey brace for attack from Netsky The Netsky worm is due to launch a DDoS attack on file-sharing sites such as Kazaa and eDonkey on Wednesday morning File-sharing Web sites Kazaa and eDonkey are bracing for a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack starting on Wednesday that will be launched by a clutch of new variants of the Netsky worm. Read article

04-07-2004, 03:06 PM	#2 (permalink)
lordpake Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 150	Call me stupid but what exactly is the idea behind this? Pure evil intent? So what if your virii knocks out some little websites, where's the challenge in it? You get better publicity by attacking bigger sites, real companies behind them. Or is that too difficult/dangerous for these coders? __________________ "Sharing is Caring." "Judge not the others by their post count, for it means absolutely nothing!"

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