| A DDos is like a connection overflow. Using computers which are infected with viruses the guy makes millions of connections to the site. Some of these socalled botnets can have a size of like 100.000 computers (so get a firewall and a virusscanner!!).
By flooding a site with all those bs connections means that also no legit connections can be made anymore.
A DDos attack doesnt harm the content of a site, only the access to it! |