Exetools Server options changes?

Hi MaRKuS-DJM,

I had similar problems recently which I PM'd JMI about. I had problems accessing ONLY the "Software Release" Forum page:
http://www.exetools.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=9

Where my firewall would go berzerk..
Invalid TCP/IP packets were sent to me from www.exetools.com and I also got WinCrash Trojan (port 4092) attempts from www.exetools.com(211.141.237.27) which my firewall NIS2004Pro blocked and then further blocked ALL communication with www.exetools.com for the default 30 minutes.

Things seemed to be fixed just recently, and I can also get mutiple forum pages open at one time. But from approx. 16-Aug-2004 to just a day or so ago 20-Aug-2004 I had the severe problems I mentioned at the start. After that my firewall would not "AutoBlock" but the exetools forum server would not respond to me after crashing on some pages (especially f=9).

I suggested the possibility of a rootkit exploit on the exetools server. I am not sure what has changed recently but things are working fine now for me. Perhaps there could just have been a problem with the exetools DNS name registration. I would be interested to know what (if anything) has been done with the exetools server recently, or if it was an ISP problem or otherwise.

I sincerely hope there was not a rootkit problem that had to be cleaned.

Regards,
nullz