Attack on CAT site.

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This was just the second day,afterregistrations for CAT 2010opened. The temporary glitchencountered on Tuesdaynot onlyposed difficulties for studentstrying to register for the exam,butalso brought back memoriesof November 2009 when atechnical glitch preventedhundreds of students from takingthe exam that had shifted to anonline versionfrom thetraditional pen and paper format.The glitches also saw American firm,Prometric, that conductedCAT 2009, dropping NIIT as thedelivery partner andchoosingtwo new service providers for thejob.This year theglitches seem tohave returned to haunt the CATorganisers. The viruses on thesecure website was discovered byusers on late Tuesday evening.However, theproblems continuedto plague users even onWednesday. Last year during CAT 2009,authorities had to rescheduledthetest at 24 of the 104 centresacross the country. About 2,000students could notappear in thetest on one of the days aftercomputers at about 50 labs in the24centres were affected.