[egarvue]

Denial of Service attack. In the simplest of terms, basically, an attacker, using hundreds of machines he has hacked or infected, starts having those machines send out a constant stream of requests for the target server, hoping to overwhelm it and cause it to crash or choke up. It would be like having you and a thousand of your best friends all try to get to Foxnews.com at once. And then keep trying.

[Wright is right!]

Got an easier way to 'splain it. Local radio station runs a contest to give away a million dollars to the fifth caller. 50,000 people dial all at once - and NO one gets thru.

Except with a Denial Of Service attack, it's one guy with 50,000 telephones calling the station. Translate that to clicking on a website and you've got the picture.

Michael