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Excite joins Denial of Service hit parade
Add Excite.com to the list of Web sites overwhelmed in the recent denial-of-service attacks
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Excite said it was attacked Wednesday evening about 7 p.m. PT, in an assault that lasted about an hour.
Traffic to the site was cut by about half. Other sites hit this week included Yahoo!, E*Trade, CNN, eBay and ZDNet.
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