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Offline polonus

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Anti-spyware sites under attack
« on: June 21, 2006, 07:11:23 PM »
Hi malware fighters,

Spyware distributors hate ant-spyware sites, and these sites have come under DDos attacks, and are being threatened by the makers of spyware.
This time it is webhelper4u.com :
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Spyware/?p=828

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Re: Anti-spyware sites under attack
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2006, 07:13:48 AM »
Hi polonus...

This is fairly identical to the tactics that brought down Blue Frog not that long ago. This "war" is getting nasty and it's going to get nastier before its finished  :(

Best regards...