On 2007-01-16, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We have just disconnected a guy whose LAN had 15000 connections with 178GB.
> He is using Windows XP. Is it at all surprising that servers grind to a halt
> and sometimes collapse under heavy load? This affects tens of thousands of
> people. Anyway, I told him not to be alarmed. It's probably a passive
> action, but things used to be easier when you could deal with the criminal
> directly, not with victims.
Have you checked for P2P software on his LAN? I've seen a single machine
bring and already heavily loaded network to near halted because of
connections being held open by Azureus.
Of course, it could just be a spambot.
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