MSE.com Attacked: PPI Campaign Suffers

pepsi_max2k

woohoo it's back! hopefully it won't dissapear again any time soon

Iom-rf

If anything its just drawn more attention to MSE, its been mentioned on online news, numerous forums (even rival forums!), so its not going to damage MSE if anything have the opposite effect..

Natty68

Thank you for the hard work you and your team have been doing the last few days to get this forum back up and running. I was at a loss while the site was down I actually had to do housework and watch t.v. ugh!!! I really hadn't realised how much I had come to rely on the site.

Once again..well done and thanks to everyone involved.

newleaf

:THuge thanks to Martin and all the MSE team for their hard work in getting the site back up. Don't let the b***ards grind you down. :T

Gorgeous_George

Is there a 'donate' button.

Every little helps

GG

MSE_Martin

No need for the donate button; the sites finances are thankfully strong. What we need is more people to hear about what the site does and come along on the email... that's the best thing to keep the site moving upward

Aries

:beer: Welldone Martin and MSE team!
Its great to be back.
Your hard work is greatly appreciated.
Many Thanks.

Reya

The people behind attacks such as these don't usually give a damn about the end users they are affecting. All they see is a very large site with a lot of users, and in this case a very important day for that site.

It probably all just boils down to bragging rights. The bigger the site and the more important the day for that site, the bigger the bragging rights. Sadly, they are sleeping quite soundly at night; probably quite smugly, too. They brought down a big site on an important day for that site. They don't care that many hundreds of people who need that site couldn't access it; the've just chalked it down as a good attack. Not as good as being able to bring down the Apple site on the day of the iPhone launch, but better than bringing down a whole batch of private websites that affect a lot less users.

The best thing about this (and yes, there is a good side) is seeing everyone responding to it in the true MSE spirit: concerned for other users who might really need this site not being able to access it. Not one of us has responded angrily or sworn at the attacker(s) --apart from wishing them some well-deserved karma-- and it's that which keeps me coming back here.

Thank you, Martin and the tech team for getting the site back up and running. And to everyone who uses MSE, get thee over to this post by Martin and make sure you have antivirus software running. Keep it updated and run regular scans; don't be one of those people who assume that because they have it installed, they don't need to do anything else with it! A good firewall is also essential, and it doesn't hurt to have some spyware scanners, too.