What does this mean?

BaDDBLooD · October 20, 2004, 09:16 PM

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[9:14:23 PM] <*Scope> congrads BaDDBlooD, your being ddoss'ed in 30 minutes or less, by my buddy, cya. Squelched

Newby · October 20, 2004, 09:21 PM

If you didn't give out your IP address, you're safe. Ignore the retard.

Akamas · October 20, 2004, 09:32 PM

**Translation**

[9:14:23 PM] <*Scope> I'm a moron, I get my friends to fight for me. Absolutely nothing will happen in the next 30 mins.

Falcon[anti-yL] · October 20, 2004, 10:11 PM

You see morons like that everyday.

BaDDBLooD · October 21, 2004, 09:21 AM

k Good, thanks alot everybody ^_^

quasi-modo · October 21, 2004, 10:13 AM

ddos is basically pining someone with large amounts of data from many different locations. Distributed Denial Of Service. Without him having your ip you are fine. B ut if you direct connected with the guy on aim or something he could very well have your ip. But if this was just over battle net, call him an idiot who does not know jack shit.

quasi-modo · October 21, 2004, 02:40 PM

A person once told me they were sending me a trojan on aim... when I had never connected to them or anything. I asked them how and they said through my ip.

iago · October 21, 2004, 04:14 PM

Quote from: quasi-modo on October 21, 2004, 10:13 AM
ddos is basically pining someone with large amounts of data from many different locations. Distributed Denial Of Service. Without him having your ip you are fine. B ut if you direct connected with the guy on aim or something he could very well have your ip. But if this was just over battle net, call him an idiot who does not know jack shit.

Pinging* (Just in case people who don't know about it get confused by that word)

Falcon[anti-yL] · October 21, 2004, 06:58 PM

I've had morons threaten to trojan me over b.net in a game, it was hilarious.

iago · October 21, 2004, 07:38 PM

Quote from: Falcon[anti-yL] on October 21, 2004, 06:58 PM
I've had morons threaten to trojan me over b.net in a game, it was hilarious.

If you're running Windows unfirewalled, and you're in a game with somebody, it's very possible to do.

Skywing · October 21, 2004, 09:40 PM

Quote from: iago on October 21, 2004, 07:38 PM
Quote from: Falcon[anti-yL] on October 21, 2004, 06:58 PM
I've had morons threaten to trojan me over b.net in a game, it was hilarious.

If you're running Windows unfirewalled, and you're in a game with somebody, it's very possible to do.

If you're running Windows without recent security patches applied, you mean. The same goes for many other operating systems, including Linux.

quasi-modo · October 21, 2004, 09:44 PM

In a game you have a direct connection with the other players, no central server, stricly p2p. So someone can easily get your ip while in game. From there on I do not know how they would get a trojan on your pc....

Falcon[anti-yL] · October 22, 2004, 12:01 AM

They can get my ip, but how would they trojan me?

Arta · October 22, 2004, 04:34 AM

By exploiting some flaw in your OS, the same way worms like Sasser spread. If you're up-to-date with patches you should be ok.

iago · October 22, 2004, 07:06 AM

Well, Windows default install without a firewall vs. Linux (good distro) default install without a firewall, Windows has about 6 ports open whereas Linux has 1 (ssh).

But in any case, yes, it works best if you're unpatched. But I wouldn't be awfully surprised if there are unknown exploits (particularely in Windows 2000 -- don't forget that XP SP2 was 300mb of mostly unannounced security fixes that Windows 2000 and Windows NT don't get).

My point is, it's not nearly as impossible during a game that it is in a channel or over a non-direct-connect AIM session.