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PIDOMA guess-MS got randomly targeted because someone wanted to test the effectiveness of their botnet. Maybe they're warming up for larger targets.

So that's what happened... Well it's great to know that it's fixed, thanks for the fixing Tristan

Omegalomaniac wrote:Am I the only one who's font colors messed up before the attack?

I think mine began to mess up as soon as Tristan put the new protocols into action, but I'm not 100% sure. It doesn't really matter with me since I know what my post color's code is.

Piney wrote:So ever since MS came back up my computer doesn't like MS as much. It's running slow and Google Chrome's task manager says that this site is taking up a lot of memory (like 440k or 700k at one point). I'm just wondering if Tristan's security upgrades is messing with the site in a bad way.

So when I first read this, I just brushed it off. And recently, I've been like; okay, I JUST shut down/restarted my computer, so why is it acting stupid? So then I remembered someone saying this, and pulled up my Task Manager, and ya, my Google Chrome is running at almost 1 mil. memory! It's at, consistently, 900,000k+

Yes, I have one window with 9 tabs open. But that's NOTHING. With my (smexy) laptop, I can snaplink-click through 1,000 eggs (equaling 1,000 tabs) at once, and while it may take a while, it doesn't crash or mess with my computer like just these few tabs are doing. I dunno if it's the extra security, but it's slightly irritating. I might get used to it, but I'm very sad. T__T

I don't think it was the extra security btw....I was clicking on Pokemon GPX last nite and my Opera was running at almost 1mill also....wondering if its a issue with the browsers or a memory leak of some kind.

Another pet site I am on also is down for the count. Somebody tried hacking it two days ago and it's been down since...yesterday evening for me.

So.

Any way to find the culprit?

What's with the rash of pet sites being hacked and hit with DDOS attacks?

I panicked... At least no data was lost.. And thats good!
*drunk on coffee*