Kazze

They are still not able to see your IP through the game though, only through the streaming provider.

Umm, no, sorry, that's fairly laughable, they cannot "see your IP" this isnt a peer to peer game....

Still worth a watch!

Hmmm, one second... brb, just need to go throw some dirt on my patio.....

pssst... don't feed the trolls!

Meh, someone asked, so I answered, you'd be surprised how often I want to tell someone... let me google that for you. In this case though, I answered from my very own brain cells hehe.

lol, it's good to be King!

Well, I think the quote is actually, "You can't fix stupid!" But yeah, generally, if they keep up with patches and AV signatures and the like they are mostly protected from accidentally infecting themselves, but if they just invite the vampire in so to speak.... well you get the idea!

Distributed denial of service is what is stands for, no, it can not easily be tracked, nor prevented, the best prevention is making people actually patch their home PCs and keep them up to date on anti virus and anti malware.... bot networks doing DDoS attacks typically consist of several thousands of compromised home pcs on broadband, the compute needed to launch an attack is not much and no server in the world can withstand the targeted traffic. So you see, backtracking the DDoS ultimately only leads you to a compromised home PC being controlled by a malicious third party, and with enough bot machines in your control you do not even need to have the compromised pcs send a lot of data, likely not even noticed by the owner of the machine. One typical attack type type is a reflection attack where they craft a payload that looks like a heavily fragmented packet with spoofed sources making the target server go request a bunch of packets from a place that never sent them, keeping them in its memory buffers trying to reassemble the fragments for a reasonable time out.... Typically networks and network related resources are overwhelmed long before servers, but maybe theirs are on the edge of their network? I do not claim to know their architecture but I do understand security and compute and I feel for them because I know how hard it is to defend against this type of attack successfully, and even the likes of AT&T and Microsoft and Amazon do not have the resources to prevent degradation or interruption of service against an attack of this nature so please all of you saying they "should have learned" go educate yourselves a little, if this is a DDoS attack directed at them... its likely an attempt to extort money from them, which will ultimately kill the game completely unless they can work with their service provider who I guarantee is also being hurt just as badly if not worse, if it is not directed at them but they just happen to be using a provider that is also hosting someone else that it is directed at.... well moving to a new provider is a great move.