All Proxomitron Mirrors Dos Attacked

[cj]

There is an ongoing issue with all the Proxomitron mirrored sites, as they are currently and have been hit all morning with DoS attacks.. All sites are temporarilly down.

Here is a message from Scott. R. Lemmon as taken from the Yahoo Group: prox-list: <BLOCKQUOTE><SMALL>quote:</SMALL><HR>Hi all,

This is a special message to all Prox-List members.

After checking with all the mirrors I can pretty much be
certain they're all under some form of DoS attack.
Unfortunately as Proxomitron's always been hosted on a
volunteer basis, there's not I can do to fix it. This mostly
hurts the folks who've been willing to offer hosting for
Proxomitron, many of whom were already having bandwidth
troubles.

I've sent emails to the other main mirrors recommending they
take down the site for now, but to be honest, under these
conditions, I don't know if it can ever return. *I'd also
urge anyone hosting any of the alternate language or other
Proxomitron related site to carefully watch your logs to
make sure you don't suddenly get stuck with excess bandwidth
charges. If possible, save any suspect web logs - it may
eventually help track down the source (although chances are
probably slim).

Also I know many members of this list frequent other groups
where Proxomitron is discussed. I'd really appreciate it if
you could post messages to let other people know of the
situation and why Proxomitron has disappeared so suddenly.
Right now, Yahoo groups is the only way I have to get a
message out.

Thanks everyone,

Scott<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Keep the peace,

-cj.- :)
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[Checkout]

It's a crying shame. *Why don't these cretins target porn sites, and do something useful for once with their sad, pathetic and otherwise futile and useless lives?

Edit for minor typo and added invective.

[Mike_Healan]

???

I've got those files on my site, albeit very few people know this. *I'll go check my logs in a minute. If someone urgently needs to download them.........
With the installer: http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/downloads/ProxN42.exe
Without the installer:
http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/downloads/ProxN42.zip

If I see heavy use, I'll take them down.

[Checkout]

Surely porn block lists are ideal ways of finding the nasty stuff without researching it for one's self....

Blechh.

[Paul Wilders]

Mike,

-{ Quote: "I've got those files on my site, albeit very few people know this. *I'll go check my logs in a minute. If someone urgently needs to download them........." }-

I applaud you! *;)

regards.

paul

[root]

One has to wonder if this is the act of some crackers, hackers, script kiddies, OR a conglomerate of companies that are being hurt by filtering software.
With the recent appearance of Radlight, I fear we may be seeing the beginning of the internet community fighting back. *>:( >:( >:(