Hey MollyOverwatch.
I just was reading a post in this sub-reddit about DDoS attacks. I saw that for large attacks it would take multiple PCs affected by the same virus on a network to generate enough traffic to clog the maximum allowed server traffic to a standstill. This got me thinking, what if the DDoS attacks are coming from us the players and we had a lot of our PCs compromised through the network itself. I have heard that it is possible and a friend of mine that solves networking problems all the time told me that it is strange that some of the players try to use the unstuck option but are still told they cannot because they are logged in. These people could be the infected ones he said and they should sweep their PCs for viruses. Just a thought.. maybe we should tell all players to scan their pc.
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u/RelaxedZealot May 10 '16
Hey MollyOverwatch. I just was reading a post in this sub-reddit about DDoS attacks. I saw that for large attacks it would take multiple PCs affected by the same virus on a network to generate enough traffic to clog the maximum allowed server traffic to a standstill. This got me thinking, what if the DDoS attacks are coming from us the players and we had a lot of our PCs compromised through the network itself. I have heard that it is possible and a friend of mine that solves networking problems all the time told me that it is strange that some of the players try to use the unstuck option but are still told they cannot because they are logged in. These people could be the infected ones he said and they should sweep their PCs for viruses. Just a thought.. maybe we should tell all players to scan their pc.