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October 23, 2007
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But if you're taking in the series from Boston's Fenway, you'll see a new addition to the field -- the World Series logo.
DENVER -- Red Sox fans hoping to get in to see a World Series game at Coors Field have less hope now.
The Colorado Rockies sold out all three World Series games at Coors Field today, one day after their first attempt collapsed in a computer-system crash the team blamed on an "external, malicious attack."
"The online system, after a slow start, certainly worked very, very well for us," club spokesman Jay Alves said.
Alves said tickets were selling as fast as 1,500 per minute today and all were gone in 2 1/2 hours.
Yesterday, the Rockies were forced to stop the online-only sale of tickets after about two hours when 8.5 million hits overwhelmed the servers set up to take the orders. The Rockies later said they were victims of an attack. Neither the team nor the company hired to run the sale, Irvine, Calif.-based Paciolan Inc., have offered any specifics about what happened.
The Rockies are pitted against the Boston Red Sox in the World Series, which begins tomorrow night at Fenway Park in Boston. The visitors were in Bean Town today taking practice. The games move to Denver on Saturday.
Dave Marcus of McAfee Avert Labs, the research arm of antivirus software maker McAfee Inc., said Paciolan could have been the target of a "denial-of-service" attack yesterday.
Under that scenario, attacking computers overwhelm Web servers with repeated but false requests to connect. When the Web server signals the attacking computer to proceed, the attacker doesn't respond, tying up the server.
"In a certain kind of denial-of-service attack, you never complete that handshake," Marcus said.
Alves said he was unaware of any criminal investigation into what happened yesterday. The FBI did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press.
-- Associated Press
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