Spammy Spam Wtf!!!!

Ok, got something where I get a million landmarks, textures, and notrecards.

YOU CAN NOT STOP IT, it just continues, you can't log out, I gad to ctrl alt delete to stop SL, and when you come back it keeps going, I uninstalled, reinstalled, that stopped it for a second?!

ANY CLUE WHAT THE HELL TO DO?!?!

[21:37] 1231re1-123dsdfs-23423sdfs-sdfs334 gave you Oh My Spam!.
[21:37] 1231re1-123dsdfs-23423sdfs-sdfs334 gave you Spammy Spam Spam.
[21:37] 1231re1-123dsdfs-23423sdfs-sdfs334 gave you Spammy Spam Spam LM.

Like does anyone know what the hell that is?!

My understanding is that it is a griefer tool. Someone has sent this to you sorry to say. The only response I've seen is to mute the object...which may be the first part of the message you got.

Can you try to set yourself in Busy mode? Someone suggested that as well.

I really sorry this happened to you. Hopefully someone else who has dealt with this can help you.

Anyone?

In three steps:

1 go to Busy. You should now automatically decline any more spammy messages
2 go to your inventory, the textures folder, and delete the spam textures in one big swoop. This gets rid of all the textures on your screen so you don't have to close them one by one
3 find out which object is spamming you and mute it.

A tip for next time you log in: Don't log into your previous location. If the object is still there you will get bombarded again immediately.

thanks Dnali and Suzy, did all that, filled the abuse report, temporarily solved, until someone does it again?!?!

Any preventive help here LL?!?!

Are there any scripts that will show previous owners of an object?

There is no way to prevent it from happening in the first place, sorry.
Best you can do is get one of the better radars to tell you who's wearing that
particular griefer tool, and maybe you'll have a real name to report next time you're attacked.

I have Textur Spamming and I cant Stop It I have try all Mute Busy Report abuse Nothing help I Hope SL Will fix it Fast i have send a E-mail to

I had the texture spaming too! 500 pink, green and purple spam textures. I could not see any name but the creator so I ARed him. Then he started IMing me all day long telling me I was an ass for ARing him as "He was not the owner." So I ARed him for harrassment. Then it all stopped.

MS

What Can we Do Nothing

Please dear spammer, do it on me to so its faster to get you banned :>

Howdy,

Jonny I know the problem you are encountering, this is becoming a grid-wide problem which seems to be impossible to stop. Going into busy mode, muting objects etc does not work, I know because I have tried to battle it before. Muting the object doesnt work for the reason that they change their names every so often to make it hard to mute. I know this because I have messed around trying to solve them before. I know how they work and the only way I can see them being stopped is if LL take the problem into their hands fully and disable a few things. For these to work they use a llHTTPRequest function which draws avatars UUID's from certain internet websites and sends it directly to the UUID. Meaning using radars etc will not work, as you DO NOT have to be in the same sim as them, you could be 1,000 sims away and still do it since it targets the UUID. I am keen on solving this issue fast as we all are since it is ruining the experience and is a pretty pathetic way of griefing, atleast the average griefer has the balls to cage someone face to face

If anyone wants some extra info on how these work and how to stop them then I'll happily help, I spoke with a few Lindens about this and I attempted to create one myself to see how they work and how they can be stopped - which is why I know all of this.

Ciao for now
Raine

Some total pratt has made a texture spammer where the idiot using it, doeasnt have to be anywhere near the target, as in- Target one side of the grid, pratt on the other. Its being sold for 499. I'm not saying the location in world or the maker, as I hope noone else buys it. From what I've been told, it wont stop sending you these texture/notecards what ever untill the pratt turns it off. Oh joy. Welcome to the next level of griefing

Yes i know the one you are talking about, and i know where it is, an idiot is selling it on SLExchange now too. There is only one way to fix it and thats in LL hands. llHTTPRequest is the essential part of these tools, with that disabled until they find another fix, we can all live in peace.

Eep, mute out where it's being sold. We dont want more people buying it lol. Could you possibly post how to stop it if you know how? I'm guessing it uses an external server to send them, so other than DDoSing the crap outta the server, not sure how else the targets can return to enjoying SL

Yeah, the only quick fix is something LL need to do. Now we all know they screwd up a scripting function not long ago which made animations screw up. Now the backbone of these scripts is the llHTTPRequest function. Which draws avatars UUID codes from the external websites that you see around. So in order to tackle the spammers, LL need to disable this function as a quick fix until they can find a real solution.

Meaning SLX etc will no longer work. It was only a matter of time untill someone thought of using that as a way to upset and cause stress to sometimes innocent residents

Yeah, what kinda idiot sells that for cheap prices. I mean REALLY are they that freakin' stupid??!!

I have been talking to a lot of the Lindens about this and im trying to get them to damn well listen and disable this function until they find a permanent cure.

Whats the betting he/she is using a freehosting site to house the 'insides' of the griefing tool. It really was only a matter of time untill someone thought of it, I'm suprised it hasnt been done before, it's really not hard to do unfortunatly Yet again, innocent people and websites will suffer from this. SLX to name just one unless LL rewrites it so only verified merchants/Websites can access UUID codes. Will really effect vendors and what not also new businesses will have to deal with profile transfering or items untill verified :/ I merchant for alot of people so it's gonna effect me too *cries* if they fix it

I am working my ass of to get it to stop, but, how long is it until someone spams a linden? is that he only way they will react? If the lindens start being hit by it and they cant stop it, then SL is doomed. Welcome to SpamLife

Definatly going to have an effect in the game, and a big one at that :/ Maybe if LL were to introduce an option to accept or decline anything sent to you, atleast that would semi stop it. Then maybe add a 'Block source' option too?

Well, having everything needing to be accepted would be a start, it would stop the screen flooding anyway. They do need some form of function where things will say An Object named "spammer" owned by "Spam Dude" sent you "spam texture", that would be an option, but it depends if LL can put it off of not.

Wouldnt work if they're using UUID an external server. It could clone anyone unless it tried to do it via IP AND UUID, if it came from a resident. But saying that, theres ways around that too. Trouble with accepting or declining an object is the box, 'accept or delcine' it brings up could also grief you, so maybe making it so if the person being sent an object is offline, you cant send them anything other than IM's. Then make it so when they're online, they get told via IM that 'so and so person or object' has attempted to send you 'what ever' Then you could contact the sender and they could send it again. Or if online and someone sends you something, you can accept or decline and it will remember the decision for that login session

The website itself doesnt do the spamming, the object does, the website only supplies the UUID to the object in world, then the objet in world spams the person's UUID that is supplied. They can be done by simply rezzing the box, saying a persons name, and bam, there it goes. If you are interested in how it works, just IM me in game and il show you what I mean.

I'm not online at the mo but I will do when I log in I know what you mean though, saying all of that, all they'd need to do is change the name of the object. Thats what I ment about reporting it/ blocking it, they could just use an alt to place the object, then the external source gives out the UUID which would be pretty much impossible to report for the everyday resident as it could identify as anything they wanted it too (the object I mean, sorry if I didnt make that clearer, my bad hehe)