Germ, I didn't know you were a coder.

I'm more of a systems/infrastructure guy.

Guys, he is right. Attacks like this are very serious and take untold man hours and resources to recover from. I know because I have put in 20+ hour days for weeks on endand 40+ hours shifts to recover from these attacks. I believe that attacks like this are only 1 step below setting off a bomb on a building because there is no loss of life. The damage sustained is no less significant. Thus, I feel that attackers such as this (not just antis, but any crackers/hackers/malware artisans) should be found and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The problem is that these infractions are so wide spread that the justice system could not handle the glut of cases and incarcerations that would result. These are not victimless crimes. Ask my wife when I could only spend 2 hours at home on my son's second birthday because of a failure.