Playing game and was threatened

Andy Pandy

Andy Pandy

Andy Pandy

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:( Hi, i was just playing a game and someone said that they knew my ip and would hack me. The game was GTR 2. He wasnt an admin just a client on an ordinary server. If he did somehow find my ip whats the worst thing he can do. I have firewall enabled Nod32 and everythings up to date. Please put my mind at rest :(
 
Could always disconnect and reconnect from the net (if you don't have a static IP)...you'll get a new IP and be okay then :)
Wouldn't worry anyway though - firewall should take care of most attacks
 
As said, don't worry about it, it's just some moron. It makes them feel 'big' to make threats over the internet as they couldn't make one in real life.
 
[R24-7] Andy. I might reinstall gtl was a great game. Btw someone online has it out for me and my friend gav, so uses our name and ruins the race. Morons.
 
Ah still around with R24-7 then! Not seen you over on the forums there.
League tomorrow hopefully......
*Wonders what has happened to MD :(
 
I formatted my comp and forgot the R247 site lol. Havent seen any of them on in ages so im probably not a real R247 any more. But everyone remembers me by that name so i just stuck with it. :)
 
This happened to me once. Some moron just started having a go on CS, saying he could hack this and that and find out all kind of stuff so I just told him to go ahead and try it whilst insulting his parentage. Its impossible of course if youve got any kind of security running on your machine. Anyway he then proceeded to spiel off all kinds of info, my date of birth, where i lived (to the street and house!), my girlfriends name! I was panicking before I realised it was my **** of a brother in australia.

Bottom line, morons who mouth it on games are probably kids talking big. The most they have access to is a root kit so keep a firewall up and tell them to go and play in traffic. Or beat the living daylights out of them the next time you see them in my case.
 
Why does this remind me of that IRC chatlog spoof where one participant was threatening another, who played along, gave his IP address as '127.0.0.1' and the "hacker" ended up hacking through his own firewall and deleted his own files? :p

On topic: as has been said, you get some morons online, but even in the unlikely event where they actually try something malicious, as long as you're protected in the usual way, you'll be fine :)
 
Lol, serves you right . . . :D

To the OP though, just LOL at them. Kiddies. We get people on our CSS server doing the same sort of thing. Along the lines of "nah nah nah, theres nothing you can do, go on, ban me, it wont work" etc. So we do. Strangely, they never manage to come back in . . . :D
 
Sleepless said:
This happened to me once. Some moron just started having a go on CS, saying he could hack this and that and find out all kind of stuff so I just told him to go ahead and try it whilst insulting his parentage. Its impossible of course if youve got any kind of security running on your machine. Anyway he then proceeded to spiel off all kinds of info, my date of birth, where i lived (to the street and house!), my girlfriends name! I was panicking before I realised it was my **** of a brother in australia.

Bottom line, morons who mouth it on games are probably kids talking big. The most they have access to is a root kit so keep a firewall up and tell them to go and play in traffic. Or beat the living daylights out of them the next time you see them in my case.
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I did this to someone on one of my game servers once who was a customer :p So had all his details including mums maiden name :D Strangely he kept accusing me of being his brother lol.
 
you can only be hacked if you have a port listening and there is a buffer overflow for that program , so if you was connected to a server , you have nothing to worry about
 
mosehn said:
you can only be hacked if you have a port listening and there is a buffer overflow for that program , so if you was connected to a server , you have nothing to worry about
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There's confidence for ya! :p
 
I wouldn't worry about it. Your IP address isn't supposed to be secret. It's pretty easy for someone to find it. Simply knowing someone's IP isn't a free pass into their system.
 
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