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Botnet takes webmasterworld offline

Brett Tabke posted Early on Davidnaylor.co.uk that a massive proxy bot attack took down webmasterworld numerous times.

after a massive proxy bot attack from the UK and europe late last week. Several noticed we were offline numerous times last week for that reason.

I still think it’s pretty amazing that people still waste time and effort in attacking websites, I just don’t get it at all.

DaveN

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  1. 1. scott horne | July 17th 2007 @ 8:09 pm

    I wonder if it was Danny Sullivan.. first he pays to have Threadwatch closed then this..

  2. 2. DaveN | July 17th 2007 @ 8:12 pm

    HAHA Threadwatch wasn’t paid to close Down..

    DaveN

  3. 3. Dominic Hodgson | July 17th 2007 @ 11:01 pm

    how do we know dave?….. how do we know it wasn’t all some part of Sphinn and somehow you have some shares in it ;)

  4. 4. Loren | July 18th 2007 @ 3:30 am

    “I wonder if it was Danny Sullivan.. first he pays to have Threadwatch closed then this..”

    Hahahhahaha!

  5. 5. paulh | July 18th 2007 @ 9:08 am

    “massive bot attack” sounds painful - especially as someone gave it to him numerous times - ouch!

  6. 6. Marcus | July 18th 2007 @ 8:28 pm

    I wonder how much Danny would have to have paid, to get threadwatch closed down… :-)

    btw. I love the DaveN ads: “Shop Brett Tabke - Browse and compare a great selection of Brett Tabke” :-)
    (… unfortunatly the link apparently didn´t work - just got an error message…)

  7. 7. Joost de Valk | July 18th 2007 @ 9:20 pm

    Hmm Marcus… How come I hardly ever see you comment here, and once we’re talking botnets, you appear? :)

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