Simple quick hit .25 cents for 15 mins let it run in the back ground while you do other hits..Your allowed 3 per 24 / hrs Ive done a cpl dollars worth of these over the last week or two.. There great! Auto approves after like 10 mins or so Qualifications Required: None
I've been doing these the last few days. It's a nice little boost for just letting it run while I make money on other hits at the same time.
It can definitely be done more than once. I'm sure there's a certain amount of time that has to elapse before you can run it again, but I've done it 3 days in a row.
I'm doing it now, and the HITs been open for 30 minutes ... and the little pop-up box says "100%", but above that, it also says "stalled". So I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it or not! Yikes. Hopefully it'll just gimme the completion code and I can be on my merry way. If not, no harm/no foul, but it'd be nice to have a quarter! * I tried it again, as the timer for the HIT was about to run out. I got the same 'stalled' at 100% message ... so instead of returning the HIT, I explained what had happened in the comment box. I was worried that I would get a rejection from it - but CloudHarmony just approved it. Yippie!
"Run an automated bandwidth test"? So people are being paid to participate in DDOS now? Sorry, but this one has fishy written all over it. :\
I'm not familiar with how DDoS works, but do understand that it fudges up some gaming and forum sites I frequent. How does running and bandwidth test become participating in an attack? I'm really curious.
"Running a bandwidth test" saturates your upstream and/or downstream bandwidth, but unless you know for sure how your upstream and downstream are being used, they could be used for anything. And bandwidth is the key to DDoS. If I were suitably nefarious, I could hire 1024 people with 1 Mb/s download speed to run a "bandwidth test" program for 15 minutes which involves repeatedly downloading files from a target, thus constantly saturating that target's upload abilities to the tune of 1 Gb/s total. The target may also have a limit of open connections, which could be filled by this kind of attack. I wouldn't run this HIT without a virus scanner and a packet sniffer.
Linux user here... I have zero qualms about viruses. I know it is POSSIBLE to get one on a Linux system, but have been running it for 5 years without a single infection. Compare that to when I was on windows and had my anti-virus software detecting something every few weeks...
It has appeared again, doesn't look suspicious at all. http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/02/cloud-speed-test-results.html
Did you even understand what he said? Doesn't seem like it. Any computer can be used in a DDoS attack. "Packet sniffer" was the operative word, not "virus scanner".
