[kremtok]

A friend of mine on XBox Live decided to mess with me a bit. He's using a program called Jay's Booter to knock me off of the Internet. A few days after he did it for the first time, he told me all about it.

Router is WRT54G, security solution is MSE for three computers and AVG for two computers.

I've done a bit of Google work, and I can't figure out how to protect myself. Thoughts?

 

[cokezone]

Change username/password on the router.

 

[Razzal]

I suggest you go to his house and step on his xbox.

 

[kremtok]

Quote:

Originally Posted by cokezone Change username/password on the router.

It's already a pretty strong combination, but I'll do as you say. However, what's to stop him from doing it again? That's what I want to prevent; this guy is just messing with me, but what if someone with real malicious intent tries the same thing? That's what I want to stop.

 

[beers]

Solution:
Don't let him on your network.
If you still must do this, segregate him into a separate subnet.

It would be exceedingly easy to ARP poison the MAC associated with your PC from the same subnet and simply have your traffic routed nowhere.

 

[xTweetyBird]

Quote:

Originally Posted by cokezone Change username/password on the router.

This will do nothing..

 

[boom50cal]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Razzal I suggest you go to his house and step on his xbox.

Break all his electronics and cite "cyber threats and attempts and identity theft"
Then chnage ALL your router passwords, user names. Run scans on EVERY pc. With multiple antiviruses at that.

 

[djk11]

If its a DDOS you need to blackhole/nullroute the incoming packet spam, or change your IP, but he can find your new one if you contact him again.

 

[kremtok]

Quote:

Originally Posted by beers Solution: Don't let him on your network. If you still must do this, segregate him into a separate subnet. It would be exceedingly easy to ARP poison the MAC associated with your PC from the same subnet and simply have your traffic routed nowhere.

He's not on my network. He's in a different city and we're playing together on XBox Live.

 

[riflepwnage]

would not consider this person a friend,
solution

Quote:

get better friends

 

[GanjaSMK]

Listen to beers....

 

[xTweetyBird]

The best thing to do is reset your modem (changing ip) and never play with him again, unless you know he's not going to grab your ip and boot you again.

EDIT: Don't listen to the people telling you to get a better anti-virus and scan computer because this is not a virus, he's sending a crap load of packets to your ip causing you to go offline. It is called DDOSing, not a virus.

 

[wumpus]

you better contact the cyber police!
as the consequences will never be the same me thinks...

 

[kremtok]

Quote:

Originally Posted by riflepwnage would not consider this person a friend, solution

Thanks, but I've done that already.

Let me please reemphasize that my priority is preventing this from everyone, not just this person.

 

[superj1977]

If its possible with your type of connection,try to release/renew your external ip as often as you can.
In lots of cases this can be done by simply rebooting/powering down your router or in my case i have to change my routers MAC as my ip address lease is tied to my routers MAC.

Check with ipchicken before and after to confirm your new ip address.
He may get in some bother for using Jays booter eventually from his ISP for persistant Denial of service,but hey thats not your problem.

 

[Razzal]

I would just tip the fbi off to him, nobody messes with my netz

 

[djk11]

Quote:

Originally Posted by superj1977 If its possible with your type of connection,try to release/renew your external ip as often as you can. In lots of cases this can be done by simply rebooting/powering down your router or in my case i have to change my routers MAC as my ip address lease is tied to my routers MAC. Check with ipchicken before and after to confirm your new ip address. He may get in some bother for using Jays booter eventually from his ISP for persistant Denial of service,but hey thats not your problem.

Supposedly its just a control program for shells/botnet so OP's 'friend' wouldn't be generating much traffic himself for his ISP to notice.

You can't defend against a DDOS besides nullrouting the packets when an attack starts or changing your IP.

 

[beers]

Hence why distributed serving/hosting is not the greatest idea.

As stated, over the WAN not much you can do if it's either a software vulnerability/exploit within the Xbox software or simply a DDoS from botnet, etc.

Best things to do are to stop playing with him, and leave modem off for ~30 minutes in order to acquire a separate WAN IP.

 

[kremtok]

Thanks to you all for your advice.

Here's what I've heard: I can prevent this person from attacking me in the same way, but I can't prevent others from doing the same thing. Is that a true statement?

 

[djk11]

If you have an IP, it can be DDOSed. Its a packet flood from multiple machines that overloads your connection and makes it unusable.