Randy Paynter said that Care2 is under attack as we speak. 

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This is why over the last few days, members may have had problems with the site. If it continues, know that the forces of darkness are trying the best they can to shut down Care2 and all of the good work being done here as well as on the Petition Site. 

Someone out there is really feeling the heat from Care2, and fighting back, illegally of course. A DOS attack is basically hijacking a lot of computers with a virus and making them attack the target computer. 

An example is provided below. Often thousands of computers are taken over by a virus, which then all attack one computer like Care2 at the same time.   

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"A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or persons to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and even root nameservers."

Site Status: Care2 and the Petitionsite are experiencing a DOS attack, making the sites very slow. Please see Care2 twitter account for updates