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Technical News & Discussion => Windows News & Discussion => Topic started by: David on Oct 16, 2009, 22:16:14

Title: Message looks like an attack ?
Post by: David on Oct 16, 2009, 22:16:14
It may for some be self explanatory but I lost connection a while ago well a few minutes just got a BT message that the service was down and to close down browser.
As its not uncommon for this to happen I just rebooted my router but this time I took about 15 minutes to get reconnected and when I looked on the status page (not IDNet) the message was that it looked like an attack.

What is this all about ?
Title: Re: Message looks like an attack ?
Post by: bobleslie on Oct 16, 2009, 22:45:07
It was a suspected Denial of Service Attack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack).

The protection code in the network closed it down to thwart the attack.
Title: Re: Message looks like an attack ?
Post by: David on Oct 16, 2009, 22:53:42
 :thnks: For that bob