Have you noticed that it is taking longer to load up pages on the internet ?,or just getting anything to load up,i noticed it slowed up over the last week or more,read on and this link.

Is the Internet O.K.? An Attack on a Spam Tracking Company and Cut Internet Cord Slows Down Speeds
The FBI is shutting down temporary internet servers, leaving unsuspecting malware-infected individuals without internet.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/den...ry?id=18833827

We are getting much lower speeds for last couple of weeks

Slow is the norm here, but it's been extra slow tonight.

My connections seem to have been slow all day
sorry for the DM reference
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...worldwide.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...er-attack.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636

so it could be either physical or electronic

but, has anyone noticed that so many websites are massively heavy and take many secs to load. One I visited the other day had over 130 items to load so small wonder they are taking their time.

oh for the good old days when you had to write lean and clean code

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...erability.html

Simple answer

Too many expats trying to access their home country's TV programs over the internet.

Had the same problem, with pages unavailable all the time.

Ran my virus checker on full, and it came up with 2 very serious ones, that the ordinary 5 min scan missed. It took 25 hours.

Now it's very fast indeed. Seems to have cured it.

However for an alternate theory it might be a break in the BAT/EMR/DOM battle which has probably been taking bandwidth in four threads now.

Thinking of running the full version every day now.

Yes, there is a massive dDos attack going on at the moment between spammers and an anti spam company. I read an article a few days ago. The net result is that the internet as a whole has been slower.

DDos attack details

thats naughty of you Fred

it did cross my mind but felt it would be an intrusion into other threads