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Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

We aren't banning just IP address, in order to circumvent these attacks we have to ban entire regions and countries. For instance there are a lot of Zombie computers in Germany used in the attack. We could spend hours tracking down each individual IP out of the hundreds of thousands in the log or we can ban Germany and allow individual IP addresses later.

The easiest way to solve these issues is to get everyone you know to patch their Windows computers, install a firewall and virus checker and not participate in the attacks themselves.

[rant] [sarcasm]So if I single handedly patch all the windows machines on the Internet, of all the people I know, can I then get access back to the support site for the software I paid for ? [/rant]

Oh wait - Thats exactly the kind of thing I do in my consulting business - Just think how many million customers more to patch/fix before I have done my part to solve VB's problems ? If I can get them all to pay the 2 hour minimum I'll be able to hire someone to +++++ at VB and fix the forum issues...[/sarcasm]

Seriously - I know you guys are frustrated but come on....

Doug