# Preventing Zombie Pc's

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preventing-zombie-pcs/178110>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [February 7, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preventing-zombie-pcs/178110 "2006-02-07T19:28:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Seb\_Hughes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Seb\_Hughes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Seb_Hughes)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preventing-zombie-pcs/178110/1 "2006-02-07T19:28:37Z")

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Ok, i was wondering people can use IRC to send thousands of packets to a web server, which would in turn slow it down. I was wondering how do your prevent this from happeneing?