DOS Attacks

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Submitted by Bluezzer49 on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 06:06
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Seems whenever I log into Soulseek I get bombarded with DOS attacks. Has anybody else had this problem?

Submitted by Nir on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 17:10.

How are you detecting said DOS attack?

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Submitted by Bluezzer49 on Mon, 11/12/2012 - 07:18.

My Kaspersky anti virus firewall picks them up

Submitted by Glass on Mon, 11/12/2012 - 07:40.

I've been having them too with Soulseek NS and Kaspersky in the past and as far as I know it's a false alarm (I think there have been various threads both in Soulseek and Kaspersky forums about this) in the sense that it is not really a DOS attack, it's just that Kaspersky goes berserk if soulseek returns too many results and detects them as such. In my experience, nothing to worry about, but since the pop up windows get annoying and make it impossible to use soulseek, click "disable this notification" in Kaspersky and you'll be alright. At least that's how I deal with this and never had a problem.

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Submitted by Bluezzer49 on Mon, 11/12/2012 - 07:54.

Thanks for your input I was wondering if that might not be the case. Thanks again for your help