Massive DDOS attacks have crippled payment processor E-Gold’s servers starting around 3:00pm EST August 18, 2006. E-Gold’s servers are inside Prolexic’s network (www.prolexic.com) and generally an internal migration to fend off the DDOS attackers takes anywhere from 6-24 hours. Despite all the rumours circulating the various message forums, E-Gold’s servers should be functioning once again shortly. E- Gold is the primary payment processor for the autosurf and Hyip community.

E-Gold’s sister site Omnipay (www.omnipay.com) which is an in and out-exchanger for E-Gold has not been affected by the DDOS attack which is primarily aimed at E-Gold’s servers alone. This type of direct DDOS attack, although the most crippling is the easiest to fight. Have patience and spend the next few hours doing something useful other than trying to load your E-Gold account, because your ip address may get filtered as part of the DDOS attack.