Re: Frank

["Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Roland" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Are you running a game server and made some Half Life players mad at you?
> You can tell us, we know there is a Steam server in there on that 4 post
> rack of yours somewhere.


LOL.  Nope just a remoted hosted website.  I've got several sites hsoted
there.  That was the only one that was subjected to an e-mail attack.
Surprised they didn't try a DNS attack except that is easier and faster to
trace.



> "Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Frank Olson" <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> message news:1Tkmh.542297$1T2.133212@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>
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>>>>
>>>> I have most of that old FAQ stuff in its original format for my own
>>>> training in house training, but I no longer have any of it in HTML.  I
>>>> was going to try and resurrect DIYComponents as a forum / help site,
>>>> but it fell under a serious dictionary attack on the mail server so I
>>>> shut it down.  Just did not have the time to track down the source of
>>>> the attack.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A "dictionary attack"??  Not just any "dictionary attack", but a
>>> "serious" one...  Are we talking "Websters", "Houghton Mifflin"??  The
>>> paper-back versions?  How thick a "dictionary" was used in the attack??
>>
>> Enough that my host asked me to redirct the DNS for a while to a null
>> address.  It was a malicious attack.
>>
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