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Thread ID: 137902 2014-09-05 23:24:00 The spark has gone out.... lakewoodlady (103) PC World Chat
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1383342 2014-09-07 04:10:00 Oh really? They have done and do. Anyone known to have anything on their site causing that sort of thing has it disabled immediately.
Well Dhurrrr :waughh: Thats only common sense really.

Why would they allow a person or company to have something that would attract malware on purpose or send out malware. In fact its written in Section 3 - 3.2 of the general Terms and conditions and what will happen.

This BS with Spark is just that, they cant blame a handful of customers for bring the whole network down. If it is in fact true then they are damn useless at handling a bigger load, no one else appears to be having the same problems.

Looking on the upside -- there should be plenty of work shortly cleaning out infected computers all over the country.

:tui:
wainuitech (129)
1383343 2014-09-07 05:38:00 In fact it was very similar spin they put out during the Go Large fiasco. They said the low download speeds people were getting were due to the large number of people downloading. Somehow they even got Ernie Newman at the same time on Tele saying it was like trying to get water down a narrow pipe, maybe even he fell for their hype.

Help desks just got people doing endless useless speed tests.

Edit: "All the internet you can get" (at 14kbs, right, :banana)

Give a dog a bad name.............:)
Terry Porritt (14)
1383344 2014-09-07 06:53:00 Well Dhurrrr :waughh: Thats only common sense really.

Why would they allow a person or company to have something that would attract malware on purpose or send out malware. In fact its written in Section 3 - 3.2 of the general Terms and conditions and what will happen.

This BS with Spark is just that, they cant blame a handful of customers for bring the whole network down. If it is in fact true then they are damn useless at handling a bigger load, no one else appears to be having the same problems.

Looking on the upside -- there should be plenty of work shortly cleaning out infected computers all over the country.

:tui:

Maybe it's only spark customers that download porn
plod (107)
1383345 2014-09-07 06:54:00 Well Dhurrrr :waughh: Thats only common sense really .

Why would they allow a person or company to have something that would attract malware on purpose or send out malware . In fact its written in Section 3 - 3 . 2 of the general Terms and conditions and what will happen .

This BS with Spark is just that, they cant blame a handful of customers for bring the whole network down . If it is in fact true then they are damn useless at handling a bigger load, no one else appears to be having the same problems .

Looking on the upside -- there should be plenty of work shortly cleaning out infected computers all over the country .

:tui:

Looking on the upside -- there should be plenty of work shortly cleaning out infected computers all over the country .

Lol, Yes, good if some work comes my way!

LL
lakewoodlady (103)
1383346 2014-09-07 07:23:00 Well Dhurrrr :waughh: Thats only common sense really.

This BS with Spark is just that, they cant blame a handful of customers for bring the whole network down. If it is in fact true then they are damn useless at handling a bigger load, no one else appears to be having the same problems.



You could definitely not say I'm a fan of Telecom/Spark, but if someone has specifically targeted them with a malware/dos attack then there is very little they can do to stop it. The best they can do is identify and counter it. No-one else has these problems, probably, because they were not the target.
Lets put blame where blame is due - at the attackers not the victims.
Krakka (17266)
1383347 2014-09-07 08:26:00 How many millions use Google's DNS or OpenDNS, how do they manage? Cato (6936)
1383348 2014-09-07 08:54:00 How many millions use Google's DNS or OpenDNS, how do they manage?

Standard usage is a bit different to a DoS attack.
Agent_24 (57)
1383349 2014-09-07 10:21:00 What has standard usage got to do with Telecon/sPark? Sub-standard is their absolute best shot, and they only achieved that once (by fudging the scorecard). ;) R2x1 (4628)
1383350 2014-09-07 20:52:00 Well Dhurrrr :waughh: Thats only common sense really.

Why would they allow a person or company to have something that would attract malware on purpose or send out malware.

This BS with Spark is just that, they cant blame a handful of customers for bring the whole network down. I:

Yes, but WD has had issues just like Telecom did.
Until they find whats causing it and fix it.

I don't know why Telecom don't disable people with large amounts of data coming from them though....then again I have no idea how they track/fix this sort iof thing.

Anyway, it wasn't that big a deal, it was slow and laggy, had to reload pages a few times but the internet wasn't down.
pctek (84)
1383351 2014-09-07 23:08:00 I don't know why Telecom don't disable people with large amounts of data coming from them though....then again I have no idea how they track/fix this sort iof thing.

According to the article, they were, but when they blocked one attacker, someone else started up.

There are all sorts of ways to do it: en.wikipedia.org
Agent_24 (57)
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