Soldato
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- 5 Jul 2005
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Well I had a Denial-of-Service flood attack today. I had a couple in the space of a few minutes. Comodo described it as 'DDOS Attack (SYN Flood). Duration 20 seconds. # of parckets 89. # of attackers 263', and reeled of a load of ip addresses. It then went into emergency mode. I noticed it when I couldn't access the net and the lights on my router were going frantic, but I wasn't downloading anything. I only chanced into the Comodo log and saw what was happening.
I immediately switched off the router and scanned my PC using Avast, Ad-Aware, Spyware terminator and Spybot, but it didn't find anything.
The logged also stated that I had a number of high attacks involving svchost.exe (Application was c:\windows\system32\services.exe)
This has really worried me. Why has my computer been targeted and how has this happened. I thought DOS attacks were only targeted at big servers. Why was my PC targeted and whats the svchost.exe problems?
I was using uTorrent at the time, could this have caused a problem?
I immediately switched off the router and scanned my PC using Avast, Ad-Aware, Spyware terminator and Spybot, but it didn't find anything.
The logged also stated that I had a number of high attacks involving svchost.exe (Application was c:\windows\system32\services.exe)
This has really worried me. Why has my computer been targeted and how has this happened. I thought DOS attacks were only targeted at big servers. Why was my PC targeted and whats the svchost.exe problems?
I was using uTorrent at the time, could this have caused a problem?