The pool operators could get another ingress to their 'head end' servers and be protected by another provisioned path, or split up their pools to sub-pools operating on different providers. Just a strategy to provide numerous smaller targets than one big one. Or everyone could go to solo-mining, but I doubt that would happen.

HYIPs always get DDos'd when they start up. Now, why on earth would the people attack HYIPs?

Obviously, the government does not want people making money or getting ahead. Not necessarily the government but operatives within the gov, working for the CIA or bankers, but mostly just working to keep the rich, rich, and the poor, poor.

When Bitcoin mining gets DDos'd, it tells me, personally, that the people who do not wish others to make money in this way, are the ones who are attacking. I doubt that it's frustrated people. I think it's collaborative among gov agencies, working privately.

Of course it's just a guess and i'm paranoid and always offer up the conspiracy-ended possibility, but you have to look at "where is the motive"? and "who benefits"?

People overlook the fact that central bankers control a whole lot of computers, people and corporations, as well as governments themselves. And then they overlook the fact that doing this would definitely be in their interest.

Just saying, I don't think it's random hackers.

Perhaps the affected pool owners could post a bounty for the botnet owner's identity...

So Slush's pool is solving 1500 blocks daily? That's why difficulty keeps increasing every two days....
And I'm glad I'm part of it, i get about 0.02 BTC out of every block, giving me a profit of 1500*0.02=30BTC per day! Not.

But you probably meant 1500 BTC per month, which would fit the rest of your message :-)

Not from within.  Modern malware can be so devious that you cannot really trust a negative report from an antivirus program that is running from inside a compromised system.  The solution is to either boot from a live-CD and perform a scan of your hard-drive from there, or to just nuke the system completely and reinstall everything fresh from a trusted source.

Statistically speaking, if you are running Windows and you are posing such beginner questions (no offense!), it is very well possible that your system may indeed be compromised and part of a botnet.

I have an idea,
isnt it possible to fight botnets to reroute the traffic back to its own pcs?
But,Only 1 PC of this Botnet at a time gets all the traffic for a limited time.
If this PC hangsup, next PC of the Botnet gets the traffic.

does anybody think this could work?

(maybe send the Traffic at the Command & Controll port? )

1500 BTC daily is 30 blocks per day.

http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stats/graphs/

Pretend you're a cable provider.

Investigating what your clients are doing and whether or not their PCs are infected costs you >0.  Doing nothing costs 0.
Shutting down a paying customer costs you 39.95 a month.  Leaving them on earns you 39.95 a month.

Ask the question again.

Distributed denial of service attacks - DDoS can be defeated and prevented - but the victim may need to change their internet service provider.

Briefly, a DDoS stems from a multitude of controlled client computers - the botnet - in which the botnet operator causes them to flood a particular victim web service with connection requests or other useless messages that may consume all the input bandwidth allowed the victim, leaving none for legitimate customers.

DDoS attack traffic can be detected and removed by a cooperative internet service provider.  The ISP generally has very high capacity bandwidth with the internet backbone network, and at the point of connection to the backbone DDoS filtering can be performed on behalf of the victim's servers hosted by the ISP.  This DDoS mitigation and prevention service is promoted by certain ISPs - for example those now hosting Mt Gox and BTC Guild.  Other ISPs may not be as cooperative or may not have the network devices to effectively prevent DDoS attacks.

Most small websites using low-cost ISPs are thus unable to withstand DDoS attacks with their present ISP and must migrate their servers to a more secure ISP when attacked.

QFT