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Russian script kiddies stealing my megahurtz
Frosty
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(crossposted from the technology forum)
So the other night I'm surfing the webs minding my own business and my cable internet connection starts dying repeatedly. The connection would drop just long enough for my system tray icon to change, then reconnect for maybe 30-45 seconds, then drop again, repeat.
Obviously this started to get really frustrating, so I checked my router's log (Linksys BEFSR41) and I was getting completely annihilated on my bittorrent port by a whole bunch of different IP addresses. Checked a few of them out and, lo and behold, theyre all from Russia/China/Eastern Europe/etc. I decided to just close the bittorrent port and the problem stopped
I keep a pretty low internet profile, and I assume I was just the random target of some script kiddie. What exactly can I do to prevent this? I feel like I don't really ever need traffic from that part of the world, can I just block entire countries somehow?
So the other night I'm surfing the webs minding my own business and my cable internet connection starts dying repeatedly. The connection would drop just long enough for my system tray icon to change, then reconnect for maybe 30-45 seconds, then drop again, repeat.
Obviously this started to get really frustrating, so I checked my router's log (Linksys BEFSR41) and I was getting completely annihilated on my bittorrent port by a whole bunch of different IP addresses. Checked a few of them out and, lo and behold, theyre all from Russia/China/Eastern Europe/etc. I decided to just close the bittorrent port and the problem stopped
I keep a pretty low internet profile, and I assume I was just the random target of some script kiddie. What exactly can I do to prevent this? I feel like I don't really ever need traffic from that part of the world, can I just block entire countries somehow?
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