So thats why ...

Hex · Party Boy Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

I couldn't connect to the internet last night, apparently UK Internet Services hackers are attempting to bring down UK ISP's with DDoS attacks on DNS servers.

Apparently we can expect complete loss/slow service from NTL, BT, Blueyonder, Demon, Pipex and Freeserve, currently un-affected are Nildram.

Part of the hacker competition called the loft.

Bloody kids. Rolling Eyes

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Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

Bloody script kiddies. Lets go ddos them and thier AOL dialups Twisted Evil

McJamweasel · BCF Junkie Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Karma :

According to pipex one of the main UK-US backbone links was down yesterday. Dunno if thats true or if they're just trying to cover up the fact that they got hacked...
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Deano · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Karma :

Whats the bloody point! Evil or Very Mad

Oh well, once their ringholes are able to swallow basketballs they'll learn their lesson.
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djr · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Karma :

So that would be why i couldn't get to msn, hotmail and preety much any american hosted site last night, oh cool.

Hex · Party Boy Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Messenger and ICQ seemed to be working as it was apparently port 80 that was been buggered around with.
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Korn · Admin Joined: 01 Feb 2002 Karma :

It sounds better if we just blame the French Wink

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Scotty · Scooter Boi Joined: 31 Jul 2002 Karma :

Couldn't sat i really noticed it all that much.
I mean my net was pretty slow, but still worked.

Just blame Danny Wink

Damn polish connection ,i'm pretty sure the electric is generated from a monkey an a small wind up gear!
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Susi · Whitton Girl Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Karma :

Heh, my internet was only half working last night. One minute it was loading certain sites, then the next it'd switch and target another bunch of crap.
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Hex · Party Boy Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

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Hex · Party Boy Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

My mistake, not down with all the l33t stuff bollox. Laughing

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Scotty · Scooter Boi Joined: 31 Jul 2002 Karma :

Get it right you fool its 1337!

8e5iDe5 y0U kn0W i RUle +he W0RlD 0F lee+ 5pe@k y0U cl0Wn5!
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P_J · Nearly there... Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Karma :

My brother had me messing about with the PC downstairs last night trying to get NTL Dialup to work. It would dial out and then say the remote machine did not respond in a timely maner or with the expected reply. We thought my dad had screwed it up (again) so I was there for ages. Evil or Very Mad

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Sparks! · Sir Tart-a-lot Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Karma :

I reset my broad band modem, reset my pc, run virus scanner, ad aware, Correct Connect test for internet connections etc until I bothered to ring NTL's world's worst award winning customer non-service line just to find out it was a bloody problem with the ISP Evil or Very Mad

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kev · I Hump Things Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Karma :

Well apart from the pop`ups i'm getting my dial up seems to be working ok. Very Happy

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Sparks! · Sir Tart-a-lot Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Karma :

Kev, get adaware that should deal with the pop ups (from download.com)

If your still getting them then are you using Kazaa or some other program?

If not, then stop looking at cheap porn sites with lots of pop ups and viruses!! Laughing

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kev · I Hump Things Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Karma :

People keep saying that to me to stop all the pop`ups but What i want to do is actually stop them coming rather than just blocking them.
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Sparks! · Sir Tart-a-lot Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Karma :

Ad Aware will do that though Kev.

Well, to an extend anyway.

Pop ups , if not from the actuall website your on. Will come from files stored on your computer from ad companies. Ad Aware finds these bastard files and deletes them, stopping pop ups (to an extend)

It's free, very easy to use and takes 2 mins to run.. Worth trying!?
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P_J · Nearly there... Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Karma :

If you have Norton Systemworks installed (Or I think it is in Norton Internet Security) you can set an Ad and/or pop up blocker. Some of the Popups do sneak through and you manually can tell Norton to stop them as well.

PJ
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