It seems that gamers are employing booting services provided by hackers to get revenge on those who beat them in an xbox live game.

The so called "Booting" service allow hackers to kick the players off the network using a data flooding tools which has been recently employed againts numerous website.

Microsoft is looking at this issue at the moment and anyone caught using this method will be banned from xbox live. Spokesman from MS has said that "There's been a definite increase in the amount of people talking about and distributing these things over the last three to four weeks," said Chris Boyd, director of malware research at Facetime Communications.


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