... It's not a specific, dedicated, unrelenting attack against a site from your
machine... there is plenty of space between each "hit" to the sites in their
database, and it rotates among six or seven sites within the screensaver...
In other words, a DDoS attack.
My website www.DNSstuff.com is currently under a DDoS attack, from malware that is installed on 10,000s of computers. It wasn't designed to be a DDoS attack -- the malware author simply wanted information from my site. It wasn't a specific, dedicated, unrelenting attack, and there is plenty of space between each hit. But multiply 100 hits/day times 10,000 computers, and you have 1 million hits/day.
In your case, it may be 3MB/day per machine. That might be within "acceptable limits." But if you intentionally try to get an unlimited number of people sending those 3MB/day, the intent is a specific, dedicated, unrelenting attack.
-Scott
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