any pc gamers any idea what this could be

[tony]

hi
me and my son do gaming and it has to do with GTA 5
at one point we where gaming and a modder was fighting with someone else as
soon as we got into the match and the modder was fighting with everyone and this one person
who he was fighting with said so you want me to shout down your pc again for 24 hours or longer and the other gamer said not again , and it was getting heavy we could see from the text chat and we when to another game on the gta 5 , and the next day we cant login into the game at all not on my pc or his at all , any idea what it could be and we didn't get any money drops or anything

do you think something could be blocked on my side on one of the pcs ?
and they said everything looked fine on there main site no errors and the accounts look fine
we have tryed everything we could think of still cant get on

is there anything else that comes close to gta 5 thats good ? we tryed watch dogs nope !
thank you for your time

[Weebz]

It appears this person grabbed your IP address and knocked you offline, or a gamer way of saying it : "You got booted offline."

Now, I assume you are able to access the internet on your PC but just not the games you play. The person probably is DDosing you on a specific ports, ports that Steam use to connect you to online servers.

To avoid this, you can, unfortunately, use a VPN to prevent a full duration of a DDoS attack. Alternatively, on some cases, you can just assign your computer a new IP (if you're tech-savy that is...or google 🙂

Also, since you know who threatened you, and is just a flat out idiot, you can report them saying that they DDoS you. Steam will not ignore that report since it is high severity, they will most likely ban his account and IP ban him.

[Weebz]

Also, some routers have DDoS protection features available. If you have set up your router and changed the firewall settings, you might want to up the security if you're being targeted by a DDoSer.

This way (if the router has the feature), if it detects DDoS-like activity, the router will drop the connection so you won't be booted offline.

[Abad]

It is a great nonsense to "block an IP". The IPs of home users are dynamic. So blocking an IP is impossible, if not to the entire range. Besides, video games use a peculiar protocol in each game, making it easy to hack (Who knows how to handle hacking / cracking ...). Normally, what you should do is DO NOT PLAY ANYTHING that shares your IP. It's easy to do it with windows, with the Netstat command, but I think the game takes up the whole screen (making it difficult to access the terminal ..), and, honestly, I have never used "shared online" video games.
Try a program called "LiveTcpUdpWatch", and see who gets into your computer.
Type "GTA5 HACKING ACCOUNTS" in duckduckGo or Google (Ouch!)...

[Weebz]

@abad

Yes, that is why some routers (or firewalls) have the feature to automatically block incoming traffic that seems to be DDoSing a user.

The reason it is a good idea to use VPNs is because they do have anti-DDoS measures. Even if the attack was successful, the target is the VPN server not the user using the VPN server... if that makes sense ._.

[hottehue]

@digitalzombie
To sum it up (and maybe explain it a little further):
There are two ways to get multiple people to play in a session of a game together.
One is to direct all traffic through the server. But as traffic (i.e. connections using their bandwith) is one of the aspects data centers calculate their customers bills Rockstar Games decided to use the other way and let their players know where to find the others and then let them connect directly.

So as abad pointed out this means that every player can access the list of IPs his computer is connecting to (on Windows you can see this in the Resource Monitor). As the "hacker" didn't know which of the people present in this session was the one he threatened he has run his attack against all players (including you and your son).
As the rest of the internet connection seems to work it sounds like he has some script that spams the port(s) GTA 5 uses with nonsense which keeps you from establishing a connection with the Rockstar servers.

So as it has been said before a new IP should do the trick. If your IP address is assigned dynamically (which is the case in most countries nowadays) a restart of the router should make things go back to normal again.

Assuming you are playing on a Windows computer you can also use some quite neat trick to get a temporarily cheater free session. If you are in a GTA Online session hit the Windows key to get to the desktop and go to the Resource Monitor (you best start that one before the game). There you can see a process starting with GTAV. Right click on that and "suspend" the process. After some seconds "resume" it again and get back into the game. Now you should have a session with only you being around. Then your son can join you via the friends list and you can build your criminal empire without being disturbed by others until Rockstar realizes there is this session with only two players and lets others join.

[tony]

thank you ! for the info

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