Just read on Teletext that a transatlantic computer virus has been blamed for crippling internet traffic across the UK and Europe. Perhaps that explains why things are a bit slow today, including NTL's home page access times even on broadband..

I was just reading the same on the BBC news site. Is your Briskoda access slow today Denis? Mine's whizzing along, last night was very creaky however. Methinks internet speed is a very temperamental thing.

Rich

Briskoda is OK - its hosted in the USA. Its UK sites I am having some trouble accessing as fast as usual. I can get the Briskoda home page up faster than NTL's, and that is via NTL 600K broadband.

That probably explains why UKMKIV's is unaccessable.

Sod it, I'm waiting for a message from a guy that may want the wheels I'm selling :cry:

Advanced Autosport Technologies' web site was down this PM but has now reappeared.

Funny you should mention this because i had trouble loading The Sims Deluxe Edition this afternoon :scratch:

Found this info at http://winxp.bink.nu

Origin from North Korea?

"A.P. BREAKING NEWS: Reports that a wide-spread cyber-attack is underway on the key internet servers in the United States, the NSA is reporting that the attacks are believed to be originating from North Korean military computer networks.

There is a massive worm that has infected all Microsoft SQL servers that are doing a giant DoS attack on udp port 1314.

There is currently a major DDOS similar to codered/nimda circulating.

It is targetting Microsoft SQL Serers, on udp port 1434, with packets sized at 404 bytes.

Approximately 10-20% of the internet is "down" right now."

Found this info at http://winxp.bink.nu

Origin from North Korea?

"A.P. BREAKING NEWS: Reports that a wide-spread cyber-attack is underway on the key internet servers in the United States, the NSA is reporting that the attacks are believed to be originating from North Korean military computer networks.

There is a massive worm that has infected all Microsoft SQL servers that are doing a giant DoS attack on udp port 1314.

There is currently a major DDOS similar to codered/nimda circulating.

It is targetting Microsoft SQL Serers, on udp port 1434, with packets sized at 404 bytes.

Approximately 10-20% of the internet is "down" right now."[/quote:b95f5ad9db]

That'll be the answer, then. If the worm is just attacking Microsoft SQL Server on port 1434 then I imagine www.briskoda.net is immune. It seems to be running Apache on Linux, so any Micro$oft worms/viruses will just bounce off.

Funnily enough, I've been downloading stuff to build the latest Debian GNU/Linux CDs (version 3.0r1) all day from a Debian mirror in the UK, and I wondered why everything was quicker than usual :lol:

Is anyone else having trouble accessing Briskoda at the moment (1917 hrs GMT or 07.17 pm as our American friends would have it)? Access times are in the minutes rather than the usual couple of seconds for me right now.