The very popular internet based Morpheus music "sharing" (stealing) freeware is well-known by the IT community to have trojan horse routines embedded within it.
Perhaps, these routines have gone active.
Millions of X-ers, Y-ers and younger use this software on internet connected computers from around the world to "share" (steal) digital music. This would serve as the perfect springboard for launching a DDOS attack.
As much as Grampa Dave would like us to think, this is not just a Freeper-specific problem.
jriemer
Now why would you think that I want you to just think what happened yesterday is a Freeper Specific Problem.
I only posted what happened on Free Republic yesterday as that was what I saw happening and have seen in the past on former conservative board sites.