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Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What the fuck is a DOS attack anyway? Can somebody explain roughly what it is and why I've literally never heard of it outside of this emulated everquest server? It's annoying having no idea what it is and just hearing "welp, DOSed again!".

DDOS stands for 'distributed denial of service'. So a DOS attack would be someone sending tremendous amounts of data through to the site they're attacking in order to make it not function properly. a DDOS is the same thing done from many different computers at many different locations, which is a ton harder to prevent.