Quote Originally Posted by negiman4 View Post
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.
The Keyword and difference between an classical DOS Attack is that D in front of DOS -> meaning Distributed.

That´s why its hard to mitigate such stuff because it´s coming from so many different IP´s (think 5-6 digit numbers) and it now try to sort out good from bad traffic...