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Chat spam exploit?
Anya Ristow
Vengeance Studio
Join date: 21 Sep 2006
Posts: 1,243
01-29-2008 22:06
Every few minutes in my home sim I was receiving a recipe from an object with a random number for a name. The number was different every time.

This is odd, because my property is quite large, and I was standing in the center of it, so I wouldn't think anything would be able to chat with me without shouting (and it wasn't shouting). I flew hundreds of meters up and still received the chat. Another avatar right next to me was not receiving it.

My property has no object entry, no scripts and autoreturn is set to 1 min. There are currently no objects not owned by me. I am not wearing anything I did not construct and script myself.

So, where is this chat coming from? What is the range of an object's chat? I thought it was 30m, so I shouldn't hear anything while I'm standing at least 48m from a neighbor, right? It was able to chat with me no matter my altitude. Without shouting.

I teleported to a distant sim and the messages stopped. Tried to teleport back and was logged out, and when I logged back in (back to home) the messages did not resume.

Any ideas? Perhaps someone figured out how to inject chat messages into others' viewers? The reason I suggest it as a possibility is that I seem to have been specifically targetted (remember, the nearby avatar was receiving nothing), and I stopped being a target after a relog.

Any tools available to trace the sucker if it happens again?
Cascadius Fizgig
Back from the future
Join date: 7 Apr 2007
Posts: 28
01-29-2008 22:14
The object was probably IMing you. IM's from objects appear in your open chat / chat history. I'm guessing that you came into the scan range of the offending object at some point, and it has then used your unique key to IM you directly.
SuezanneC Baskerville
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Join date: 22 Dec 2003
Posts: 14,229
01-29-2008 22:18
SLProxy and the Dale Glass viewer are the object identifiers.

Is it llInstantMessage chat?

That reaches anywhere.

See /327/cf/236348/1.html

SLProxy post: /327/cf/236348/1.html#post1845147
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Anya Ristow
Vengeance Studio
Join date: 21 Sep 2006
Posts: 1,243
01-29-2008 23:08
From: Cascadius Fizgig
The object was probably IMing you. IM's from objects appear in your open chat / chat history.


You're probably right. I had assumed an IM would come in an IM window, but now that I think of it I don't think I've ever seen that happen.

Thanks.
Anya Ristow
Vengeance Studio
Join date: 21 Sep 2006
Posts: 1,243
01-29-2008 23:22
From: SuezanneC Baskerville
SLProxy and the Dale Glass viewer are the object identifiers.


Actually, on my to-do list is to log system messages in my own client. I guess I'll just log 'em all.

Thanks.