Forums Re-open

marleyboy

Im so glad to see MSE up n running again, and te speed is flawless, ive missed you guys. Someone please tell me what the bad guys did to us good guys that meant MSE had to be disabled, Im clueless. WB everyone.

superscaper

marleyboy wrote: »

Im so glad to see MSE up n running again, and te speed is flawless, ive missed you guys. Someone please tell me what the bad guys did to us good guys that meant MSE had to be disabled, Im clueless. WB everyone.

Think I replied to you on another thread, it was the bad guys that disabled the website. Martin and his techie team were fighting to keep it up and got a specialist company to try and filter the attack. To be honest it all comes down to how determined the bad guys are, some of the bad guys that are capable of DDoS attacks using botnets are capable of taking down entire countries so I'm not sure what you'd be able to do against an attack as ferocious as that if it came.

redux

dancingfairy wrote: »

... also proceeded to give me a Internet Explorer can't find the webpage page. I don't seem to be able to get on to the main site at all. I hope this message makes a bit of sense to the techies. If you need further info just post in this thread and I will try and reply as best I can- if I can come back in here later that is.

It may be that MSE has moved to a different IP address, and that your ISP is taking a day or two to update the details that translate the domain name to the numbers

Mind you, it's only a guess, and I've had that problem before elsewhere but not this time ...

ceridwen

Do we know for sure who is responsible for the attack yet? (Offers to be in the group of people who want to pay them a visit! - to buy them a drink of course, what else? - as in tipped over their heads LOL)

Smickan

I keep getting:

Site Temporarily Unavailable. Sorry, the site you requested is currently unavailable. It will be available as soon as possible. Please try again later.


A few refreshes does usually shift it though ^_^

pavlovs_dog

im having no problems with speed today (cant remember the last time when the site was fast!) but pages are not formatting properly. i can see all the text, but get none of the background graphics. dont know if this is a widespread problem?

edited to add: it sorts itself out if i cntl f5 it, so it cant be anything too serious. im in south wales, not sure what isp as im on a uni pc

superscaper

ceridwen wrote: »

Do we know for sure who is responsible for the attack yet? (Offers to be in the group of people who want to pay them a visit! - to buy them a drink of course, what else? - as in tipped over their heads LOL)

I think it'd be almost impossible for them to find out. Almost all DDoS attacks only lead at best to the PCs actually doing the attacking (e.g. your PC could be one of those if it isn't properly secured), not the people responsible.

Ken68

OK here..Martin has just said on Vine Show. he didn't think PPI people were responsible but some thought had gone into the attack, namely the timing 4pm on a Friday.

suziewuzie

When the site was down there were a couple people who suggested a fund to help protect the site or help get it back up and running - did anything happen? I have saved a lot of money using the site and wouldn't mind putting a little back to help others - I'm sure loads of people feel the same. Just wondering if anything came of it.

superscaper

suziewuzie wrote: »

When the site was down there were a couple people who suggested a fund to help protect the site or help get it back up and running - did anything happen? I have saved a lot of money using the site and wouldn't mind putting a little back to help others - I'm sure loads of people feel the same. Just wondering if anything came of it.

Martin's already said that the best thing as far as he's concerned is getting people to know about the PPI campaign, they're alright as far as finances go in helping deal with the attack. As far as wanting to help directly in making sure it doesn't happen again, then I'd suggest you make sure you're not part of the problem and make sure your PC is secure and spread the word of PC security. These attacks can't happen without people being careless of their home PC security. And quite frankly, with so many infected PCs, some of the criminals controlling them if they wanted to could knock entire countries off the internet so I don't think donating any amount of money would make any difference at all in defending this one meagre site.