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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: jimmy556 on May 29, 2011, 03:49:14 AM

Title: avast forums was down for hours what went on?
Post by: jimmy556 on May 29, 2011, 03:49:14 AM
Did the site get DDoS'ed or what? it was down for hours.
Title: Re: avast forums was down for hours what went on?
Post by: Rompin Raider on May 29, 2011, 03:51:12 AM
I noticed the same but it usually doesn't take them long to fix anything that comes along! Glad it's up again!
Title: Re: avast forums was down for hours what went on?
Post by: Coolmario88 on May 29, 2011, 04:01:45 AM
I was wondering what happend? I'm glad it is up again  ;D
Title: Re: avast forums was down for hours what went on?
Post by: DavidR on May 29, 2011, 01:49:00 PM
It was down for many, many hours I contacted avast by email but no response.

I don't believe it was DDOS as the main avast.com site was up a. The blog.avast.com was also down for a long period, but that seemed to be more intermittent and when it did connect the page display wasn't complete (almost blank).

So to me that sounds more of a server issue than DDOS.
Title: Re: avast forums was down for hours what went on?
Post by: Asyn on May 29, 2011, 03:23:25 PM
So to me that sounds more of a server issue than DDOS.

Or a hack.
Don't hope so, though...!
Title: Re: avast forums was down for hours what went on?
Post by: DavidR on May 29, 2011, 03:59:43 PM
Can't see why a hack would be selective on sub-domains.
Title: Re: avast forums was down for hours what went on?
Post by: Asyn on May 29, 2011, 04:04:00 PM
Can't see why a hack would be selective on sub-domains.

As said, I hope not.
Still it's possible, why should a sub-domain be safe..??
Title: Re: avast forums was down for hours what went on?
Post by: DavidR on May 29, 2011, 04:15:12 PM
There was nothing wrong with avast.com, so it isn't about sub-domains being safe, but why it 'only' effected the sub-domains and not the main avast.com domain.
Title: Re: avast forums was down for hours what went on?
Post by: Asyn on May 29, 2011, 04:19:44 PM
There was nothing wrong with avast.com, so it isn't about sub-domains being safe, but why it 'only' effected the sub-domains and not the main avast.com domain.

Because the IPs differ. ;)