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Yahoo mail servers attacked

  • 12-08-2009 1:50pm
    #1
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭


    Reports coming in of an explosion on their server farm :eek:


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  • #2
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Do people actually still use anything other than Gmail?


  • #3
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Do people actually still use anything other than Gmail?
    People use Internet Explorer instead of Firefox so anything is possible


  • #4
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    Think there's a couple in the Aran Islands still using Hotmail.


  • #5
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    CountingCrows wrote: »
    Reports coming in of an explosion on their server farm :eek:

    Source? Any links?


  • #6
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    No confirmed reports yet, but the site is down and eye witnesses report seeing smoke and hearing a loud explosion on twitter.


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  • #7
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    People use Internet Explorer instead of Firefox so anything is possible

    Boards doesn't work properly on Firefox (for me anyway)

    Have IE in work but lots of stuff disabled, really annoying, no smileys,link,most pics don't work:mad:


  • #8
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    Cant find anything on any news sites bout this..
    Not even reddit..

    Quick.. To 4Chan.
    The best place for breaking news and current events :p


  • #9
    Mimikyu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,976 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


    This post has been deleted.


  • #10
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Captain Morgan wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Doesn't load all the graphics sometimes, could be the slow connection or the fact that my pc is falling apart and randomly shuts itself down


  • #11
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,239 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Do people actually still use anything other than Gmail?
    I don't email a lot anyway so I use a combination of hotmail and DCU mail.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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  • #12
    Adamcp898
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    CountingCrows wrote: »
    Reports coming in of an explosion on their server farm :eek:

    A what??:confused:


  • #13
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Adamcp898 wrote: »
    A what??:confused:

    Warehouse full of computers


  • #14
    Carsinian Thau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    Adamcp898 wrote: »
    A what??:confused:

    A server farm.

    Where do you think baby servers come from?


  • #15
    Carsinian Thau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Warehouse full of computers

    I prefer my answer.

    Puts the mystery back into computing...


  • #16
    Adamcp898
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    Carsinian Thau wrote: »
    A server farm.

    Where do you think baby servers come from?

    Damn culchies :pac:


  • #17
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Nothing on LNN yet either. They're usually way ahead of everyone.


  • #18
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    lol at those with yer IE and Firefox.

    Safari is where it's at bitches.


  • #19
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Yahoo! Mail working fine for me....


  • #20
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Carsinian Thau wrote: »
    I prefer my answer.

    Puts the mystery back into computing...

    So do I but I was first so **** you
    :pac:


  • #21
    Carsinian Thau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    So do I but I was first so **** you
    :pac:

    There's no need to be so mean. The divorce is hard on both of us. I have feelings too. :(



    Yahoo is working fine for me atm.


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  • #22
    KevR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭KevR


    Yahoo Mail is working fine for me too.


  • #23
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    Ponster wrote: »
    Yahoo! Mail working fine for me....

    No "LaunchCascadeError-ymws:Server.MailboxOpenFailed" error?


  • #24
    KevR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭KevR


    CountingCrows wrote: »
    No "LaunchCascadeError-ymws:Server.MailboxOpenFailed" error?

    No.


  • #25
    Carsinian Thau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    CountingCrows wrote: »
    No "LaunchCascadeError-ymws:Server.MailboxOpenFailed" error?

    No.

    What browser are you using?


  • #26
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    Tried IE, Firefox & mobile phone


  • #27
    Carsinian Thau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    CountingCrows wrote: »
    Tried IE, Firefox & mobile phone

    Have you tried turning your router on and off?

    That wouldn't help with the phone though...

    Maybe there really is a problem and our accounts are on different servers?


  • #28
    KevR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭KevR


    Does your email address end in yahoo.ie or yahoo.com or something else? Mine ends in yahoo.ie and is working fine..


  • #29
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Explosions reported on Twitter, eh?

    Suspect.

    No problem with the Yahoo site here.


  • #30
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    .com address.

    Contacts, calender etc working but not mail.


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  • #31
    Corcaigh84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Corcaigh84


    Explosion? Now that's what I call a brute force attack ;)


  • #32
    mickoneill30
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭mickoneill30


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Do people actually still use anything other than Gmail?

    Yep.

    http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/aols-luddites-love-their-e-mail-more-than-googles-geeks/

    In Aug 08
    Gmail = 26m
    Yahoo = 88m
    Hotmail = 45m

    No idea what the stats are for this year.


  • #33
    Carsinian Thau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    mickoneill30 wrote: »
    Yep.

    http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/aols-luddites-love-their-e-mail-more-than-googles-geeks/

    In Aug 08
    Gmail = 26m
    Yahoo = 88m
    Hotmail = 45m

    No idea what the stats are for this year.

    :eek: Wow.

    I had no idea Yahoo was still so popular.


  • #34
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Carsinian Thau wrote: »
    I had no idea Yahoo was still so popular.
    Look at any movie made between 1995 and 2005 which involved the interweb and you'll see Yahoo everywhere. They had/have massive penetration in the States, themselves and AOL were two of the biggest brands on the web for a long time.


  • #35
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,566 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    have been using yahoomail for a long time now (although not @yahoo address)
    the oldest mail I still have in a mailbox is march 98, not my only email address but use it a lot

    anyway my mail is still working as it always has


  • #36
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Carsinian Thau wrote: »
    :eek: Wow.

    I had no idea Yahoo was still so popular.

    Very. I have a (pay) account with them myself for email from one address.
    I'd be lost without it.


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  • #37
    truecrippler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭truecrippler


    I use yahoo.


  • #38
    Jeanious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 644 ✭✭✭Jeanious


    Carsinian Thau wrote: »
    :eek: Wow.

    I had no idea Yahoo was still so popular.

    Jaysus same here. I have an old account and it's Spam city. The whole site is like poison for the eyes as well! Dont see why anyone would even want to use it to be honest.


  • #39
    Carsinian Thau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    coyle wrote: »
    Jaysus same here. I have an old account and it's Spam city. The whole site is like poison for the eyes as well! Dont see why anyone would even want to use it to be honest.

    That's pretty much I left it tbh.

    And it kinda stopped working when I refused to upgrade to the new thing and tried to keep it on Classic.


  • #40
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Why is it not cool to have Hotmail? I have it and it works fine.

    Please enlighten me. Is there something I'm missing?

    Had Gmail before and didn't like it.


  • #41
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    bmail is what all the cool kids have.


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  • #42
    Bonavox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Bonavox


    Yahoo Mail hasn't been working for a long time. It has nothing to do with server crashes.


  • #43
    Prof.Badass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    I logged into yahoo just there.

    Yahoo answers is pretty cool. Not only does it get you answers to your questions, it's also a brilliant place to troll.


  • #44
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    Back working, fires have been put out ;)


  • #45
    Jeanious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 644 ✭✭✭Jeanious


    kraggy wrote: »
    Why is it not cool to have Hotmail? I have it and it works fine.

    Please enlighten me. Is there something I'm missing?

    Had Gmail before and didn't like it.

    Well speaking personally i hate the whole setup with yahoo, especially the ads and the fact that i get inundated with spam the whole time, and i would say pretty much the same with hotmail.

    I just find gmail much cleaner, clearer and easier to use. Not totally mad on the conversations and some other stuff, but it's the best ive used by a country mile.


  • #46
    Carsinian Thau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    coyle wrote: »
    Not totally mad on the conversations

    +1

    That can be very confusing at times.

    I'd love an option to turn it off but they don't seem very likely to take it out anytime soon seeing as they pride themselves on it.

    I'll just wait for Google Wave instead. That's too cool to annoy me. :D:cool:


  • #47
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Sorry, it was the bean I had for tea.


  • #48
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Ah Yahoo the hackers paradise. Yahoo was the center of everything for a long time and it was unbelievably popular.


  • #49
    An Fear Aniar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭An Fear Aniar


    I use Yahoo Mail, never had much problem with it. I use Thunderbird to actually read my mail, rarely do I ever actually go to the website.

    I'm trying to migrate over to GMX mail, but I never got round to it yet.

    .


  • #50
    tolosenc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,889 ✭✭✭tolosenc


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    People use Internet Explorer instead of Firefox so anything is possible

    http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/perspective.png


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