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Subject: Re: Closure of Stickyvicky!!

Date: Mon 25/08/03 09:36:47 GMT

Name: Graham (UK)

Email: graham@styxwetworld.com

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Hi Gavin - sorry to hear your news.

The "low lifes" out there are certainly intent on breaking into sites but I've never heard of one being hacked like that. We see DoS (Denial of Service) and brute force password hacking attacks on a very regular basis - around 50,000 hits in 20 mins is quite common. But we've now become quite adept at beating them off and tracking down a few of them too!

If you still have the content secure, I can host it (and protect it) on one of the GrayHost servers if that helps? That will get around the closure problem you currently have. The domain name is still yours of course, so can easily be updated and moved. I can advise you what needs to be done. Let me know if I can help get you and/or Vicky back up and running again?

Regards, Graham (and Kev)

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Closure of Stickyvicky!!

By Webmaster - Mon 25/08/03 09:03:38 GMT

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To all our wetlook fans out there...

It is with the saddest regret, that I have to inform you, that in the last 2 hours, someone (or group of people), have been using our site as a platform for their 'hacking' activities. This has meant the site had become corrupt and almost unrecoverable. Our ISP issued us with a closure instruction, as the site was receiving malicious attacks nearly twice every second.

We have therefore had to close the site in it's entirety, and the domain name has been made unavailable.

As you can all gather, if I could get my hands on the individuals behind this, then who knows what would happen. I just cannot understand the mentality of individuals who undertake such unnecessary actions.

A good site has been forced to close as result of this, and all I can say is I hope some of you will miss us. Who knows we may return in the future, but to be honest, have lost all trust in human nature, and as some of the webmsaters will testify, we put a lot of hard work and effort (in our SPARE TIME), into these sites.

Any members on a recurring basis have had their accounts cancelled and money refunded for their latest instalment. For one-time subscribers, you to have received a full refund. You should see these refunds coming through in the next week or so. I sent all members an e-mail informing you of this.

If any ex-members of our site needs to contact me, my e-mail address is gavin_allen@msn.com. Please ensure you place Stick Vicky Members Subscription in the subject line of your e-mail to ensure a response.

Good luck to all other Webmasters out there particularly Kev and Graham at Styx.

All the best,

Webmaster

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