Originally Posted by
Trencal
It is relatively easy to dos someone. A ddos involves multiple networks sending you info.
Honestly though, A person dosing another person is just retarded. Read up on DOS, Denial of service just by pinging will not do anything.
Dos normally works on a software vulnerability on the system. A DDOS is to exhaust the computers networks resources.
People use LOIC to ddos normally, easilly hooked up to a irc where a botmaster can manipulate them.
But, like MC and Super said, since a dos is normally vulnerabilities I would update windows and use anti-virus's / firewalls. As well as update your routers firmware.
If its a DDOS attack you would have to install software to prevent it, which is getting technical and I sincerely doubt they're doing that.
Also, To DDOS or DOS a person you would have to be giving out your ip by either going on some websites that would record it or the like.
People think that DDOS / DOS is an endall, its extremely easy to do and doesn't do as much as people think.
All a DDOS does is slow your internet to nothing. A DDOS is continual and rarely lets up as it uses multiple bot computers. As your accessing the internet now I believe this is not the case.
I would honestly think your not being dos'd and that you just have some new virus/worm that its just blocking the anti-virus's from working correctly.
Especially because of how your saying the DLL files are appearing on your desktop.
a DOS, DDOS, Netspam, anything. Will not do that, thats a virus or other software installed transferring more software onto your computer.
People stop making up rumors about DDOS/DOS.
1 Person can DDOS, using a BOTNET (Irc) and Installing LOIC on other people's computers, The bot computers are called Zombies, which together form an army.