Is there a script that will make you invisible to other scripts?

Hi,
I am trying to find a way to defend or protect against malicious or unwanted scripts. Example: An avatar sends a pop-up that is filled with the word Crash to crash me out of SL. Second example: The CO-...(It is a ball that is rezzed, the owner sits on it, selects an unwilling target then is able to attatch themselves to you using inappriate animations).

Is there a way that a security device could be made that will hide my avatar in way that I cannot be "selected" via find avatar? Would setting myself to busy mode counter these scripts and pop-ups?

Thanks in advance

No.

A lot of these attacks start with a sensor if they are general tools/huds, the sensor gets your key and then targets you when selected from a list. It is possible to avoid many of these by staying out of range or crossing sim boundaries (if you are 5 feet away across a sim border, their sensor won't see you). Some vehicles also help you to avoid sensor pings by faking out their sensor. In that case you would likely not show up on their list to select to start with and are much harder to target.

So in many cases, yes it is possible to avoid both of these things to some extent. You can also use an animation to offset yourself (like some dances that force you to move around in a 10m area. Their 'follower' will only stand on your actual location so you could be running an animation that runs circles around them and taunts them.

Lots of people sell tools that help with these things, I have a few, I think the popular combat huds do too. None of them is foolproof but depending on the tools your griefer has, most of them can be sufficient.

Thank you Shadow!

I have a followon question about the sensors. I was in a busy store the other day, and someone in the store ran a script that rapidly printed out the key of every avatar in the store into chat. That was around 20 keys. I stayed around, and nothing further happened ... looked around for the object/avatar that printed the list, didn't see it. The owner of the store was there, and totally bewildered, so it wasn't hers.

Has anybody ever seen this? I guess the thing could be collecting UUIDs for a nefarious purpose (or for something just irritating like an IM mailing list for advertising), but why print it out into chat?

*puzzled*

Anytime you interract with an object for something like purchasing something or using a door that has an access list your UUID is given up to the object. The script in question sounds more like a simple scanner that was set up to say everyone's UUID in a certain radius. I could probably make one and I'm pretty script-tarded by most people's standards!

Your UUID isn't the equivalent of a RL Social Security number like so many people think. It's more like your fingerprint. There aren't a whole lot of bad things you can do with it that you haven't already had done to you!

Thanks, Squeeze. I could script this too, I was just totally puzzled as to why anyone would want a script that scans for avatars and prints their keys into chat, lol!

I guess you could use this to create a list by turning on chat logs and filtering them offline, but it's kind of laborious. If I was creating a list of random AVs to send ... for example, fashion advertisements to ... I guess I would just quietly make a bot that quietly IM'd the names and keys to an object or AV that compiles the list.

Still puzzled, lol. oh well, maybe somebody was just debugging a script.

Actually, you'll find a list of avatar keys and names in the secondlife folder on your harddisk. I think every avatar that you have ever "dealt" with in anyway is in there.

Sounds to me like someone was just testing bc if I wanted to use something like that maliciously, I'd let it IM me instead of talking to open chat.