some girl i found out has pinged my computer and now my computer is acting wierd like when iam in a game its very slow and and takes for ever to ,,, like when i click on the games in jts blocks if i click on the block the page flickers and it s just not working right i realy cant exspain it
2006-07-26 12:11:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
a ping is just a packet of data that is sent by one site to another. When recieved the packet is re encapsulated and sent back to the original sender. Unless someone is constantly pinging you repeatedly, this should have no impact on your system.
2006-07-26 12:16:00 · answer #1 · answered by Interested Dude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pinging is normally used to see if your computer can "see" another computer. What happens when you ping google.com for example is this:
You type 'ping google.com'. This tells your computer to send a very small packet of information to the IP address that is google.com. When the google.com server receives this packet, it replys, or 'echos' a response back to you to let you know that it heard you.
Some server, such as microsoft.com do not echo these packets back for one reason or another. In older versions of Windows there was a way to hurt other computers by using the ping command maliciously, but that has been removed from Windows via new versions and updates.
Still, it's not a bad idea to turn off ping echoing for your personal computer unless you know that you want it on. Often times people will ping large groups of possible IP addresses trying to find a vulnerable computer that they might then "crack" into.
there is more info in this link
http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/86161.html
2006-07-26 19:17:48 · answer #2 · answered by daddysboicub 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a ping itself is not a malicious thing it is used to verify a computer exists and there is a connection to it (exactly like a ping on a submarine it sends a ping waits for the signal to return).a correctly configured firewall will stop returning a ping response to the remote computer and verifying that your computer exists on the net.
you can use the ping command by going to ->start->run->cmd
once the black window comes up type for example
ping 66.94.234.13 or
ping yahoo.com
2006-07-26 19:27:15 · answer #3 · answered by set_aim_1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A ping will not change anything on your computer nor harm anything. Its just a quick packet that asks your computer's network card "are you alive".
2006-07-26 19:14:41 · answer #4 · answered by Du 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing.
2006-07-26 19:14:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋