Originally posted here by darkes
...can you really protect yourself against a massive DoS attack ??
If you figure it out, tell Superb.net. My work's site and email have been down all day! Bastard DoS attacks.

Originally posted here by r8devil
But MS changed the IP of their windowsupdate site and all seems to working fine now.
While what you say is true, it is important to add (add one of the articles did) that they changed the ROUTE as well... keeping it "away" from MS traffic. Changing the IP address to a new one behind the same router is pointless.

In addition, I'm not sure how this virus was written, but in theory you could just write the virus to attack the DOMAIN, not the IP. When the DoS packets go out, a normal DNS lookup takes place and the traffic is still directed at the target server, thus making a successful DoS. Or am I missing something?