AO Was Attacked this Weekend

[Mag Master 04]

geez

that sux, i wasnt around this weekend to notice it, hope you nail the lil bastards

[wobbles82]

I dunno if somebody posted this, but it was most likely just a ping attack. I read that someone posted an 8-year old could do it, and yes, a 4 year old could. You just go into dos and ping an ip address and voila, as long as its not a government connection, you can get away scotch free. I learned this among other nifty tricks working at a computer store like a year ago, but never use it like a complete 455h013. I hope he gets caught, we should line em up and let him face the power of all the current X-MAGS! MUAHAHAHA.

[Lopy-slopy]

people are asking alot about why someone would want to attack AO. It seems you all forgot about the little movement that started at the end on june when people on AO(including me) tryed to launch an attack on PBN. All it we wanted to do was resurect lots of old threads, but it still is a reason that they would attack AO.

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

so that's why my friends can't go to the thread i linked them to.

gosh darnit!

lets get one thing straight...is it PBN that did this? My friend is a mod there and i'm sure i can convince him with the help of you guys to screw things up there.

[AGD]

The latest thoughts on all this was that we had a particularly popular thread that ended up getting linked all over the net. Everyone linking here from another site automatically got guest status. The thing spread from one forum to another until we were over cooked. We no longer think it was a malicous attack just coincidence. We will allow guests again when the linking dies down.

AGD

[Nachos]

awww... and the cult had their torches ready and everything.

For shame...

[DarkGod]

Originally posted by wobbles82
I dunno if somebody posted this, but it was most likely just a ping attack. I read that someone posted an 8-year old could do it, and yes, a 4 year old could. You just go into dos and ping an ip address and voila, as long as its not a government connection, you can get away scotch free. I learned this among other nifty tricks working at a computer store like a year ago, but never use it like a complete 455h013. I hope he gets caught, we should line em up and let him face the power of all the current X-MAGS! MUAHAHAHA.

Originally posted by Mag Master 04
that sux, i wasnt around this weekend to notice it, hope you nail the lil bastards

Originally posted by Big_Chops
i suggest not to to dowload any program from a website unless you knwo what to look for in teh files. most of the files on the net have trojans in them. so......why not just go by your stuff from best buy. i dunno if its just me or what but i rather be safe than sorry

Originally posted by Lopy-slopy
people are asking alot about why someone would want to attack AO. It seems you all forgot about the little movement that started at the end on june when people on AO(including me) tryed to launch an attack on PBN. All it we wanted to do was resurect lots of old threads, but it still is a reason that they would attack AO.

not to be intruding here -- but i visited this site again to turn of email notification for threads...

you dudes really need to read a thread before posting... it's rather silly all these responses when a perfectly good explanation exists above...

mod/admin dude -- you probably should edit/update your original post to contain the truth... all these knee jerk paranoid responses just look silly...

i'm actually a 'Cocker owner, but found this thread looking for the Hummer thread (as i said above).
sweet forum though all in all... i need to go look and see if the 'Cocker guys have a forum like this...

btw - don't bother to respond. laterism.

[TJ03A]

Originally posted by WARPED1
I've read this thread since it's inception, and have asked numerous times "what attack?"
No one will answer me, so what if there were a ton of guest views.

Warped, you might find this link interesting if you want to learn more about how DDOS attacks hit a web site. It's an extensive read though.

DDOS Attack

Although by the sound of it there really wasn't an attack here, just something that appealled to a large number of people from all over the place.

So just where are these hummer/statue pictures?

[FreakBaller12]

will the person who started and linked all those threads get in trouble
i forget what the guy's AO s/n is

[FreakBaller12]

http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=100548&highlight=where+did+my+thread+go

here's the thread where soemthgin liek jbdgas is lookign for his original thread so that is the guy if any1 cares

[manike]

He shouldn't get into trouble, all he did was start a popular thread! That's a good thing, not a bad thing

[MicroMiniMe]

Slashdot and Fark take down sites on a daily basis when linked to hot articles. They don't mean to on purpose, its just they have thousands upon thousands of users and will 404 a server in minutes depending on the bandwith. The AO server basically passed the test and didn't go down. Thanks to AGD and Webby we have a great forum.

[GT]

Originally posted by Nachos
awww... and the cult had their torches ready and everything.

For shame...

lol, so true

[TooDamnSweet]

Originally posted by AGD
The latest thoughts on all this was that we had a particularly popular thread that ended up getting linked all over the net. Everyone linking here from another site automatically got guest status. The thing spread from one forum to another until we were over cooked. We no longer think it was a malicous attack just coincidence. We will allow guests again when the linking dies down.

AGD

Wow, all that chaos because of a Hummer??? I think I saw the thread when it was initially posted, is that the one where the lady said she wanted to jump over the statue because she saw it done on TV?

[MantisMag]

that's the one. apparently the utter stupidity of someone with money is an extremely popular topic.