# 2018/04/28 - 11:28 UTC - Connectivity Issues - DDoS Attack **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** unscheduled-downtime, official\ **Created:** [April 28, 2018, 12:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888 "2018-04-28T12:08:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![Pookie\_McPook](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/pookie_mcpook/32/289877_2.png) [@Pookie\_McPook](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Pookie_McPook)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/510 "2018-04-28T15:45:22Z")
I don’t know, I’ve been having this Chinese guy, apparently from Microsoft, calling me for years now insisting my computer is the root of all malware in the world. Maybe I should have done as he’d told me and not hung up on him. Maybe I’m to blame for all this…if so I’m really sorry guys. ---
**Author:** ![Dornier\_Pfeil](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dornier_pfeil/32/188246_2.png) [@Dornier\_Pfeil](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dornier_Pfeil)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/511 "2018-04-28T15:45:25Z")
I am east coast. Coastal NC specifically. ---
**Author:** ![Dacurly\_Dac](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dacurly_dac/32/71127_2.png) [@Dacurly\_Dac](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dacurly_Dac)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/512 "2018-04-28T15:47:40Z")
> [@Captain\_Polo](#): > > Is there a place we can see more information about the technical side of the attack, for people that might know a thing or two about this stuff, I would hazard a guess there is a few of us in your player base 😛 ? Just google DDoS A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attack in which multiple compromised computer systems attack a target, such as a server, website or other network resource, and cause a denial of service for users of the targeted resource. The flood of incoming messages, connection requests or malformed packets to the target system forces it to slow down or even crash and shut down, thereby denying service to legitimate users or systems. ---
**Author:** ![Kilon\_Alios](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kilon_alios/32/143258_2.png) [@Kilon\_Alios](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kilon_Alios)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/513 "2018-04-28T15:47:48Z")
> [@Slappy\_Andven](#): > > The first defense is best - a USER cannot execute that and do any real damage to anything other than his own files. Real user level security was non-existent in DOS. Everyone operated at the level of complete administrative privilege. That is a fundamental, fatal flaw. Better than being able to undelete files, why not prevent ordinary users from deleting things they shouldn’t in the first place? Oh, right - because it’s DOS, it’s a tinker toy at best. Actually MSDOS was far worse than that. It came with a debugger tool which gave full low level access to the OS and the machine essentially allowing the user to do whatever he or she wanted. But that was not uncommon for the OS back on those days when Assembly was the dominant language. Of course back then it was highly unlikely that the computer would have access to sensitive data like credit card numbers etc. So security was not the big deal it is nowdays. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Polo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/captain_polo/32/69578_2.png) [@Captain\_Polo](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Captain_Polo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/514 "2018-04-28T15:48:23Z")
just remember to send him a ‘screenshot’ of the error messages you are seeing… they love opening attachments from ‘victims’ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Slappy\_Andven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/slappy_andven/32/367560_2.png) [@Slappy\_Andven](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Slappy_Andven)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/515 "2018-04-28T15:48:52Z")
Oh I recall. I remember we used to UUENCODE small utilities and literally TYPE THEM IN by hand on systems we needed them on due to the complete lack of useful networking. ---
**Author:** ![Jennifer\_Austin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jennifer_austin/32/321578_2.png) [@Jennifer\_Austin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Jennifer_Austin)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/516 "2018-04-28T15:49:20Z")
don’t think you had anything to do with this DNS attack laughing 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ciya](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ciya/32/48128_2.png) [@Ciya](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ciya)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/517 "2018-04-28T15:50:09Z")
Still doesn’t seem to be working for me? Can get to char select, but when trying to enter game it says socket was closed… ---
**Author:** ![nezzymay\_smit](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nezzymay_smit/32/45317_2.png) [@nezzymay\_smit](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/nezzymay_smit)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/518 "2018-04-28T15:50:40Z")
i still can’t get on ---
**Author:** ![nezzymay\_smit](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nezzymay_smit/32/45317_2.png) [@nezzymay\_smit](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/nezzymay_smit)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/519 "2018-04-28T15:51:34Z")
black screen and it says i’m alpha and was paid omega week ago ---
**Author:** ![Jaezus\_Christ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jaezus_christ/32/69587_2.png) [@Jaezus\_Christ](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Jaezus_Christ)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/520 "2018-04-28T15:52:13Z")
Managed to log back in but it glitched away all of my SoE probes -\_- ---
**Author:** ![Ookabooka](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ookabooka/32/184703_2.png) [@Ookabooka](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ookabooka)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/521 "2018-04-28T15:52:45Z")
PLEX SALE BIG ONE @CCP ---
**Author:** ![Bolacha\_Correia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/bolacha_correia/32/69588_2.png) [@Bolacha\_Correia](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Bolacha_Correia)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/522 "2018-04-28T15:53:14Z")
Still cant log in. ---
**Author:** ![Ookabooka](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ookabooka/32/184703_2.png) [@Ookabooka](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ookabooka)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/523 "2018-04-28T15:53:41Z")
**PLEX SALE!!! BIG ONE \_@\_CCP** ---
**Author:** ![Ahzek\_Fateweaver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ahzek_fateweaver/32/69589_2.png) [@Ahzek\_Fateweaver](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ahzek_Fateweaver)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/524 "2018-04-28T15:54:10Z")
[https://www.rivalhost.com/ddos-protection-ways-protect-ddos-attacks](https://www.rivalhost.com/ddos-protection-ways-protect-ddos-attacks) ---
**Author:** ![Kaabii](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kaabii/32/199405_2.png) [@Kaabii](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kaabii)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/525 "2018-04-28T15:54:21Z")
i am logged in right now =x like many ppls said already, restart your launcher or … if you still cant login are you on the suspect list and ya need to wait =w= ---
**Author:** ![Elijah\_bailey\_Eistiras](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/elijah_bailey_eistiras/32/168603_2.png) [@Elijah\_bailey\_Eistiras](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Elijah_bailey_Eistiras)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/526 "2018-04-28T15:54:38Z")
info service ccp is very good …any informations since three hours! ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Khanid](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/agent_khanid/32/206863_2.png) [@Agent\_Khanid](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Agent_Khanid)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/527 "2018-04-28T15:55:20Z")
i m not a suspect CCP PLEASE can not log on support account even :(( ---
**Author:** ![Rah\_Wren](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rah_wren/32/341167_2.png) [@Rah\_Wren](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rah_Wren)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/528 "2018-04-28T15:57:05Z")
Friendly reminder that restarting your PC will often let you connect again. ---
**Author:** ![Vuzu\_Vanga](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/vuzu_vanga/32/69573_2.png) [@Vuzu\_Vanga](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Vuzu_Vanga)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/2018-04-28-11-28-utc-connectivity-issues-ddos-attack/72888/529 "2018-04-28T15:57:08Z")
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