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Urgent: Someone is knocking off my buddys connection.

it's not a trojan i think he's sending packets to his IP and knocking it off. he said he cant really do antyhing, he gets disconnected every 5 mins. what exactly is this method called, and can anything be done?

jvuz

First check for virus:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

magus123

what kind of internet connection is he using ,
also does he have software firewall and a hardware firewall

ravisimpi

Someone is sending you a remote modem commant to hang up.. That command is ATH0

There are programs which send this command provided they know the IP address of your buddy.

Have a look at this article which will explain you in detail about the hang up ping.

http://www.attrition.org/security/denial/w/mod-ath.dos.html

ravisimpi

Solution Start>Settings>contrl panel>

Double click on modems, select your modem in the list, then click properties, and then in the connection tab click on advanced button
, in extra settings box enter the value 's2=255' without quites

s2=255

You can also make search in google as 's2=255 fix'

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MinusDriver

I've had this same problem before.

ravisimpi hit it right on the nail!!

Solution Start>Settings>contrl panel>

Double click on modems, select your modem in the list, then click properties, and then in the connection tab click on advanced button
, in extra settings box enter the value 's2=255' without quites

s2=255

This was actually what I had to do.

Good Luck!

andyakira

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does the s2=255 fix work for cable modem?

tim_holman, i cant send u log because the guy that was atatcked hasnt been online ever since. i think he was nuked hard. ill have to wait till he gets on.

ravisimpi

will you please tell me what actually made your buddy's connection to knock out?

I thought that Just ATH0 was the culprit