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[fashionista]

does any know how to explain to me what a ping attack ont eh computer is and how to counteract it?

 

[crazyhobo]

Ping attack is a type of DOS (denial of service) attack. Involves someone sending many ping requests to a computer in the hope that it will eat up lots of bandwidth, thereby stopping that computer from doing other things. I really doubt someone would do a DOS attack on your personal computer. They have nothing to gain from forcing one person off the internet. This sort of thing happens to large websites. If it does happen there isn't much you can actually do, except change your IP address. Most internet accounts give dynamic IPs, that is, the IP changes everytime you connect. If you have a static IP, then you need to contact the ISP in order to change it.

 

[Huy]

This belongs in IT Stuff

Ping is used to test the reachability of destinations by sending them one, or repeated, ICMP echo requests and waiting for replies.

A ping flood involves sending a huge amount of data to another user in an attempt to annoy him, lock his terminal, or to overflow his network buffer and thus lose his network connection.

The basic principles of flooding are that you should have better network bandwidth than the person you're trying to flood, and that what you do to flood them (e.g. generate ping requests) should be *less* resource-expensive for your machine to produce than for the victim's machine to deal with. There is also the corrolary that you should avoid being caught.

How do you counteract it? There is no 'real' solution, but you can try setting up your own firewall, preferrably purchasing a hardware based solution.

If you're not causing trouble on the Internet, you won't be under attack (generally).

 

[fashionista]

Ive got a firewall and i checked my antivirus system status cuz evry so often my internet (in evry so often i mean like atleast once evry time i connect) get reeeeeeeeeelllly reeeeeeeeelllly souper slow and im like kikin the computer to bluddy download the website *frustration*yeh so wen i checked it it sed a hacker had attacked the system but we had no virus and that the last attack was todaty at 4.34 pm....so this guy's been attackin us for a while me thinks.
im a totally computer illiterate person unless being able to download music counts as significantly computer literate... so cud u please xplain wut an IP and an ISP are please (omg im sorry if these are really obvious things and im just naive)
then i went to microsoft's website cuz it sed to and downloaded all this anti-virus protection stuff but im scared this hacker guy's gonna b dangerous. can he be dangerous??? i still cant quite grasp the whole thing cuz of me not being a fluent speaker of computer.
thanx heaps for ur help!!

 

[psycho_mushy]

u should have posted this in the "IT Stuff" forum to get post counts!

 

[johnson]

Originally posted by psycho_mushy
u should have posted this in the "IT Stuff" forum to get post counts!

maybe she should have, but maybe she should have punched you in the face as well

 

[Huy]

IP - Internet Protocol
ISP - Internet Service Provider

You can always google for more information, I just couldn't be bothered explaining it (and you might not understand it, so there would be no point?).

I really don't think you're being attacked. Maybe it's just your Internet connection playing up.

johnson, LOL!

Originally posted by psycho_mushy
u should have posted this in the "IT Stuff" forum to get post counts!

Originally posted by Huy
This belongs in IT Stuff

 

[fashionista]

thanx anyways!!! i hope its just this friggin hulk of metal playin up..seriously ive had it up to here with it. im seriously contemplating pushing it out my window now *drags hands down face in frustration and gets graphic thoughts of stabbing computer in hed*

 

[crazyhobo]

Your IP is a number that is assigned to your computer so other computers know how to find you. ISP stands for Internet Service Provider, that is the company that you buy your internet from (ie Telstra, Optus, iinet, etc). What type of internet connection do you have, who is you ISP, and how often does it get this slow? I'd say you have nothing to worry about when it comes to the hacker. Hacker's often run programs that go through thousands of computers to see if they can get in, but usually they won't find anything. But you should go to www.windowsupdate.microsoft.com to make sure your windows is up to date. The slow internet is probably caused by a problem your ISP is having with to many people using the net, or something of their's broke down. It is very unlikely that a hacker is causing this.

 

[fashionista]

okie dokie *ccalms down* i went to that site and looked up wut i shud download and it came up with like 11 MB of stuff so im in the process of doin it now. thank u evry 1

 

[Winston]

Some people get furious about packets and intrusion alerts from firewall logs but what really happens was when you have established a connection to a website and you close the browser and in some way you're connection isn't terminated yet and the server sends a packet back blah blah and it makes it look like it's some intrusion taking place.

 

[Winston]

Slow internet can be the cause of many things, have you checked out if your computer contains any spyware as well? If you're using Windows XP Pro perhaps trying the QoS Packet Limiter tweak, if you're on dial-up how much do you connect at normally? 56 000 or 48 000? What programs do you run the background that actually uses the internet.

 

[Huy]

It would be funny if there were P2P apps running in the background and fashionista is uploading to others, without any knowledge of it even happening.

 

[asdf]

Originally posted by Huy
The basic principles of flooding are that you should have better network bandwidth than the person you're trying to flood, and that what you do to flood them (e.g. generate ping requests) should be *less* resource-expensive for your machine to produce than for the victim's machine to deal with. There is also the corrolary that you should avoid being caught.

lol!! "Word for Word".
http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?flood

...and i dont think fashionista wanted to know how to flood others either.

 

[Huy]

asdf: FOLDOC rules.

I was trying to helpful.

 

[fatmuscle]

how about I send u the entire Cisco CCNA Semester 1 course?

then you'll know a lot more than just PING

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by Huy
It would be funny if there were P2P apps running in the background and fashionista is uploading to others, without any knowledge of it even happening.

Good idea * me whips up a running service in the background to leech off ppl* ...

 

[asdf]

Originally posted by fatmuscle
how about I send u the entire Cisco CCNA Semester 1 course?

then you'll know a lot more than just PING

How about no?

Seriously, just pisses me off when people just "copy 'n' paste" with out any reference. A simple link or quote from the site is sufficient.

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by asdf
How about no?

Seriously, just pisses me off when people just "copy 'n' paste" with out any reference. A simple link or quote from the site is sufficient.

Hmmm i guess in a sense you're right... as i myself have been quite rorted in the past with people claiming my words as theirs without providing credit, perhaps i'll put a new rule up with a linkage to sites, as it would seem more fair. Now lets all grow up and handle these small situations a little less serious.

 

[fashionista]

OK OK now im scared kinda..because my antivirus thing came up with a different type of attack on the computer
sumthing like a NetBIOS Browsing thingo..so i typed that into a virus search on the antiviurs site n it came up with a trojan or worm thing...m i screwed?