Subject: Apparently Hackers are Rampent   
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     Re: Apparently Hackers are Rampent   
     By: John Guillory to All on Fri Jul 09 2010 07:22 am   
      
    > I had to drop my web server. Took me a while to figure out what was going on   
    > I killed every task on the computer I could and it stayed bogged down like   
    > crazy.  I'd telnet into my machine even using 127.0.0.1 from the local compu   
    > and have to wait a few minutes before I'd get to the login prompt! It was so   
    > slow, once it connected, you got nothing at all, I had time to burn a CD, ch   
    > back and it was checking my ip address.... Start another CD burning on my   
    > laptop and oh look now I can enter my name.... Wait.... Password.... etc.   
    > Frustrated with that and it wanted to crash 2-3 times, I was wanting to see   
    > I might have missed an update or something....Checking the version number I   
    > looked at the Synchronet's screen and saw lines flying like crazy.... Closer   
    > inspection late last night I noticed it was my web server with lots of   
    > non-existing files....  Apparently some web server's infected with the code-   
    > or similiar virus, but either way it's rampant attack on my server has broug   
    > mine to its knees..... I shut it down temporarly till I have the time to dig   
    > through and see the IP address I need to bann....   
      
   Ouch man! Sorry to hear that. You should really be running a resident    
   antivirus on your server to prevent malicious code being uploaded or executed    
   on your web server. Hell, even something free is better than nothing!   
      
      
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