Tanada wrote:As you no doubt noticed the forums for the website were offline for a while. The company which hosts the website experienced a significant DOS attack through the internet and went down. While the front page and news feed was quickly restored it took longer for the forums to be brought back, but as of this morning things seem to be functional once again.
Welcome Back!
Interesting. Since the message I kept getting was that a SQL table had "crashed", I assumed some database component(s) needed to be recovered.
It's really too bad that the bad actors re the internet that "attack" things can't be severely sanctioned in some way to discourage such behavior.
The time I got a webpage redirector rootkit virus by installing a "Chrome update" without checking it out first (yes, I've learned my lesson), and found out this was some well organized outfit in Russia paid per computer infected, and using virus signatures that evolve to resist fixing the problem re a standard antivirus fix -- I had a new candidate for droning for Mr. Obama, if he had asked.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.