Quote Originally Posted by Fri View Post
DDOS attack is usually done by what's called zombie computers. Basically, millions of computer are already infected with malware and such right now that didn't do anything noticeable, and when the someone want to use them they just signal those thousands of millions of infected computers to send data to the place they want to DDOS, without the owners even realizing. That's why DDOS is hard to defend against, because it's so cheap and simple to do.
Alright. Then why not block the ip addresses of the computers that the attack is coming from? I'm assuming that if you play ffxiv, then you're sending data to their servers anyway so it wouldn't really matter if actual ffxiv players were infected.