It seems that loading up Aion has created it's own "open" port on my router table, the table itself shold only list the computers on my own personal network, and when I was having prblems with Aion, I noticed that in my PC's network properties, there was 2 new tcp ip protocols, on was called I/O Mapping .

That raised an alarm to see if my router has been breached, it was.

If you have this problem, Immediately change your NcSoft passwords! for safe precaution.

Originally posted by solareus

It seems that loading up Aion has created it's own "open" port on my router table, the table itself shold only list the computers on my own personal network, and when I was having prblems with Aion, I noticed that in my PC's network properties, there was 2 new tcp ip protocols, on was called I/O Mapping .

That raised an alarm to see if my router has been breached, it was.

If you have this problem, Immediately change your NcSoft passwords! for safe precaution.

my router is locked down with passwords, I can't see how it will be reconfiguring it.  Are you sure it isn't a temporary open port?

The port should close if the game was not running,  also have my router locked down as well, but the connectivity started when I noticed the 2 new  internet protocls in the  "local area Connection Properties"  I've deleted them, and now my router is able to block the attacks I'm receiving .

Also the port that was opened, would have to been user assigned, and the assigned name was korean lettering.

I've deleted my NcSoft launcher and Aion off my machine, as well as taken the machine offline cause this was disrupting the entire network. Call the ISP, there is no known problems in the area so the issue specifically targeted.

Really wanted to try the game more, but now it is a security risk.

Koreans must have seen your posts here.
Keep on Trolling lol :D

The OP here has just been posting post after post in this forum slamming AION, all without any cause. It's pretty obvious he has not played the game and is just stirring up trouble on these boards for the sake of doing so. He/she needs to get a life and stop posting crap that is not true. This is just yet an another obvious untrue slamming post by him.

I suspect he is a young WoW player just afraid that AION will hurt his game of choice.

Originally posted by solareus

I've deleted my NcSoft launcher and Aion off my machine

Keep thinking that, if giving a genuine opinion is to much for people to read, then don't read it. If you like games that can automatically assign itself an open port, add internet protocols in your Connection properties, more power to you :)

Originally posted by VABeachDave

The OP here has just been posting post after post in this forum slamming AION, all without any cause. It's pretty obvious he has not played the game and is just stirring up trouble on these boards for the sake of doing so. He/she needs to get a life and stop posting crap that is not true. This is just yet an another obvious untrue slamming post by him.

 

I suspect he is a young WoW player just afraid that AION will hurt his game of choice.

 

Can anyone honestly reply to a post that you disagree with without slamming WOW?

It seems to me that the OP has a legitimate concern over a security issue (as if GG isn't bad enough) and you slam him and anyone who plays WOW for no reason.

It just is funny to me that everytime a game comes out and someone doesn't like it or has an issue with it and immediately isn't a screaming fan of it, they play WOW, are stupid and must be immature.

No he just does nothing but sit and slam AION in every post on here and it's very obvious he has not even played the game.

Well at least now that he has removed AION from his computer, we can finally expect no more posts from him here.

/clap

i would like to know how you think other mmorpgs communicate with the server, through http tunneling? mmorpgs communicate over tcp/ip, they need an open port for that, closed port = no communication.

For anyone who doesn't know much about computers and networks, ignore this guy.  Considering he's the only one that's claiming this problem, and considering that just about every post on Aion so far has been slamming it (claiming, in various different threads, that he has played the game, then posting in others in a way to suggest he hasn't), he's just trolling for no reason. 

Even if he is having a problem like is, it's much more likely to be due to a virus that got in from somewhere else, than a problem with Aion.

What was the name of the open port?

Was there a name?   I just check mine  and there appears one access that is cuurently active called Sipuraspa that I don't recognize.

ok, most likely my description is poor, I will try again...

On my router, there is a "table" that lists, all the computers on the "local area network" which means these computers are assigned a typical address and port.

When I looked in the Table, there was a new entry, a korean named computer, which assigned itself it's own port onto my local area network. It assigned itself it's own local ip as if it was inside my house.  When discovering this, I immdediatly took the computer that had Aion on it, offline, and went to NcSoft and changed my account passowrds since I other games on there as well as a Lineage 2 account with igh level toons and lots and lots of Adena.

Did I over react, no, I dont think so when it comes to my gaming accounts.

The name of the computer was short, with Korean Characters and a box in the middle.

If you where unaware, you would probably never even notice , but i'm becoming obcessed with security....

The NCsoft launcher stays loaded after you execute it.  Thats why the port remains open after you exit the game.  Just like turbines launcher, just like SOE's launcher.

ok let's see, do you even know what a port is? the pcs in a network aren't assigned a port, they are assigned local ips, incomming packets are getting forwarded to whichever local ip is the target. ports are software constructs, they are the endpoints for tcp and udp communication, everything you do over networks goes through ports, http goes over 80 for example. now every program that uses tcp and/or udp needs to go through a port, stuff like p2p applications, mmorpgs, e-mail, etc.

i don't see how your story makes any kind of sense, if aion had bad intentions it could simply do whatever the fuck it wanted to do on your pc, it's locally installed and can send all your files back to the server, any mmorpg could do that. the point is they don't, because that would get em sued and imprisonned.

Turbine Launcher doesn't show up as a physical computer on my network, it uses port forwarding on the ip that the computer I'm playing on. So my computer would be for example 192.155.1.8  and then with game it would be on that ip with port :#### open .

What Im saying is that my computer was ip (again all example numbers) 192.155.1.8 nad under that was a new computer with the number 192.155.1.9

are seeing the problem yet ?

i don't know what exactly they're doing that the server is showing up locally, but it doesn't matter in any way, traffic from both local and external machines go through your router to the local pc's port, and by that through firewalls on either router and/or pc. there is no advantage to be gained by having a virtual pc in your local network over having a program on your computer, both have access to anything on your local network that has been freed for use by other local pcs, the program (aka any mmorpg) has the option to do whatever it wants on your pc anyway, it has no need for anything further. i see no proof of any malicious behaviour whatsoever.

I am an avid fan of aion and if your router is configured properly and works alls good. as for the game opening ports it needs to to work.

I have had an on and off affair with wow for 3 year (dont tell the wife) and am sick of the slagging it gets and its players, you cant go into hardly any forum on this site without slagging it off. I aint no wow fanboy its a game, nothing more nothing else, i am a fan of life also so all game haters not just wow go outside and play real life for a while
 

Could the game be peer to peer ? and that is why the router created a new computer ip ?