Alert - DOS attacks happening on different parts of the net this am

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We have been experiencing problems getting to the outside world. Seems like there are various parts of the net (not just us) that are getting hit by DOS attacks this morning. Just wanted to give you the heads up that if you can't get to a site this is most likely the cause. Seems who ever is doing it is picking on an area for a while then moving on.

Hope you all don't experience a DOS today.

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2002

Answers

Nope, no DOS attacks here, but it's finals time, which stresses out the mainframe anyway with instructors posting grades, but then there's the dang viruses that are popping up again. The Win 97 Gen Marker Virus has recently made a come back in this neck of the woods. I just spend the better part of an hour cleaning it from files when I really needed to be doing other work. Right now I'm -- you guessed it! -- WAITING FOR FILES! It's a song, it's a break, it's a way of life. . . .

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2002

Web site at work crashed today. We switched to the old reliable back up system until they got the web site back up and running.

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2002

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