I received an email that described the details about what causes the computer attacks known as “denial of service”. I thought it was interesting and so I decided to pass along the gist of the article. Whenever you receive this message, this is what may be happening.

These are attacks on a server by hackers. They write codes that take over people’s computers and cause them to send repeated requests to a certain server. The server is in turn overloaded and can no longer perform its job. That’s a very basic explanation, but it’s the main source of the problem. Unfortunately, there is not a whole lot you can do to prevent it except for making sure your computer is guarded. I hope you have security measures in place!