Seen quite a few gamers posts on here, so thought I'd try you forumites. Did do the google thing, but i need it in plain English and not tech expert language.
Have any you heard of ddos, or had it done to you?
What can i do to stop it and prevent it from happening again?
It's an ip address from my son's xbox that's being targeted.
All advice welcome!! Thanks x
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"Seen quite a few gamers posts on here, so thought I'd try you forumites. Did do the google thing, but i need it in plain English and not tech expert language.
Have any you heard of ddos, or had it done to you?
What can i do to stop it and prevent it from happening again?
It's an ip address from my son's xbox that's being targeted.
All advice welcome!! Thanks x
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First thing to try is unplug your router and leave it off overnight. Hopefully when you turn it back on you’ll be allocated a different IP address when it’s turned back on. |
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"Seen quite a few gamers posts on here, so thought I'd try you forumites. Did do the google thing, but i need it in plain English and not tech expert language.
Have any you heard of ddos, or had it done to you?
What can i do to stop it and prevent it from happening again?
It's an ip address from my son's xbox that's being targeted.
All advice welcome!! Thanks x
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Its a weird way to attack a private individual! These attacks are usually reserved for big organisations by people hoping to make a few quid. My guess is that either your boy has managed to wind up the wrong guy, or the person doing the attack has the wrong guy! Leaving it off a whike may well work, but failing that you could look at getting a vpn (virtualprivatenetwork), which come pretty cheap these days. |
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"Seen quite a few gamers posts on here, so thought I'd try you forumites. Did do the google thing, but i need it in plain English and not tech expert language.
Have any you heard of ddos, or had it done to you?
What can i do to stop it and prevent it from happening again?
It's an ip address from my son's xbox that's being targeted.
All advice welcome!! Thanks x
First thing to try is unplug your router and leave it off overnight. Hopefully when you turn it back on you’ll be allocated a different IP address when it’s turned back on. "
Getting a new internet provider tomorrow. That might also mean a new IP address? |
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"Seen quite a few gamers posts on here, so thought I'd try you forumites. Did do the google thing, but i need it in plain English and not tech expert language.
Have any you heard of ddos, or had it done to you?
What can i do to stop it and prevent it from happening again?
It's an ip address from my son's xbox that's being targeted.
All advice welcome!! Thanks x
Its a weird way to attack a private individual! These attacks are usually reserved for big organisations by people hoping to make a few quid. My guess is that either your boy has managed to wind up the wrong guy, or the person doing the attack has the wrong guy! Leaving it off a whike may well work, but failing that you could look at getting a vpn (virtualprivatenetwork), which come pretty cheap these days."
This one is from a sour loser. And i have a suspicion (although my boy denies this) he might have been a bit too cheery with the win and kind of rubbed it in  Another lesson learnt x |
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"Seen quite a few gamers posts on here, so thought I'd try you forumites. Did do the google thing, but i need it in plain English and not tech expert language.
Have any you heard of ddos, or had it done to you?
What can i do to stop it and prevent it from happening again?
It's an ip address from my son's xbox that's being targeted.
All advice welcome!! Thanks x
Its a weird way to attack a private individual! These attacks are usually reserved for big organisations by people hoping to make a few quid. My guess is that either your boy has managed to wind up the wrong guy, or the person doing the attack has the wrong guy! Leaving it off a whike may well work, but failing that you could look at getting a vpn (virtualprivatenetwork), which come pretty cheap these days.
This one is from a sour loser. And i have a suspicion (although my boy denies this) he might have been a bit too cheery with the win and kind of rubbed it in Another lesson learnt x"
It’s easy to do these days, there’s software anyone can download and set up an attack in minutes, and yes, was going to say it’ll be someone he’s been playing against! |
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"I already have a vpn!! Do they work on xbox as well then? "
You’d need a router that lets you input the VPN login details into it so then every device connected, XBox, phones etc. would be protected. Some routers also have a setting for DDOS protection. |
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"I already have a vpn!! Do they work on xbox as well then?
You’d need a router that lets you input the VPN login details into it so then every device connected, XBox, phones etc. would be protected. Some routers also have a setting for DDOS protection."
Brand new router ready to go, so you'd it would have these functions. Something else to look into tomorrow x |
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"Some good advice hopefully this morning you are more aware of d'dos and d'donts of gaming 
I'm an expert now "
Oh I have it when women become expert at denial of service. Really not very Fab-like  |
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Put vpn on your router and no on the phone or pc/laptop with router it covers everything connected to your network i know alot about ddos and ipv4 attacks currently learning cyber security at the moment if you heed help just send me a private message and I'll talk you through it and if you have proof that said person is going to kick son offline take a picture of it send it to Microsoft and person will get a permanent ban as its a breach of there terms and conditions |
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"Put vpn on your router and no on the phone or pc/laptop with router it covers everything connected to your network i know alot about ddos and ipv4 attacks currently learning cyber security at the moment if you heed help just send me a private message and I'll talk you through it and if you have proof that said person is going to kick son offline take a picture of it send it to Microsoft and person will get a permanent ban as its a breach of there terms and conditions "
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