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Thread #69859   Message #1190236
Posted By: Dave Wynn
20-May-04 - 07:23 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Is my website being attacked?
Subject: RE: Tech: Is my website being attacked?
Jennifer, 200 hits in a day treat as welcome. 2 Billion in an hour is a DDOS attack. (Distributed Denial Of Service). The bots would be sending massive ICMP pings to take your ISP off the air not just hundreds. Rest easy , password your index and all FTP files and you will be safe.

Spot.