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I do my fair share of helping, and when someone posts a problem/question that appears that havent searched on/read up on themselves, I will suggest SEARCHING before I attempt to help them
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I totally agree with this statement. If your trying to learn something new, others can help you overcome your problems by telling you the answer, but you will only learn if you make a consorted effort to find the answer yourself.
I have to ask, what do you mean people are attacking your site, what are the details, who told you the exploit these eleged attackers are useing, do they KNOW the attackers, why not find the answers where the attackers learn there info from ie: search the internet for "exploit apache servers" or apache varn" if you want to run a server you should learn that main part of it, SECURITY, which is mainly accomplished by finding out this sort of info, if not shut the server down, until such time as you can protect it...