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Re: DOS ATTACK: msg#00231

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Subject: Re: DOS ATTACK

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Hunt, Jim wrote:

> I have a friend that has a DOS Attack going on against their website. It is
> being done by someone with a very popular website trying to squash a little
> guy. He is doing it be placing 1 pixel by 1 pixel inline frames in his
> webpages and having them load my friends webpage. It is killing his server
> and bandwidth.
>
> What can we do to block? The Server is W2K with IIS.

If ill intend is obviously you can file a formal complaint with the party
providing the connectivity to this server.

They usually have a nice way of telling them to behave or try their luck
elsewhere.

Hugo.

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