Google’s celebration of the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man last week flooded Mozilla’s Firefox support forum with complaints about siren sounds and offbeat music. Most users assumed to be infected by an virus and posted posts for help. On Friday, Google posted a JavaScript-based version of Pac-Man on its main search page as an homage to the 1980 video game.
James Socol, a Web development engineer at Mozilla said “unfortunately, in the initial release [of the game], [the Pac-Man] sounds started playing automatically — an oversight or an homage to , I guess”.
Later, Mozilla did released an statement saying “We just got DDOSed by Pac-Man,” Socal said another Mozilla engineer quipped, referring to a distributed denial-of-service attack, the malicious assaults that attempt to bring down a Web site.”
However, users were finding it hard to get the explanation.
“The pounding we took on the forums also caused replication on our slave databases to fall behind by as much as 1.25 hours, so even when we wrote an article about the noises, it didn’t show up for most people,” Socal added.
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