Keyeung Attis

Hi all, Just an update, thank you all for your input, beyond confirming that it was not a staff member I m not allowed to disclose the findings or what the problem was, to the best of our knowlege it has been delt with. thanks again

I thought I made it clear on an earlier post it is not just the estate managers that are being banned see title for clarification (estate banning people including estate managers), it is some of the role play community as well, the owner is well aware of this thread as I placed it here on their behalf. From going through all the postings it seems the two likely candidates are a security exploit by way of a third party viewer or a disgruntled staff member on the estate list.

I can see why, and LL thought it was one of the estate managers, but were not able to find any evidence to supoprt this, I know it makes sense and it is the most liklely explanation, but this is happening when none of the estate managers are online, and since only the owner can add people to estate management as far as I know etc. The current satff have been with the region as managers for around two years and the general consensus is that it is unlikely that it would be one of these personel.

Intersting reading, just an update to the situatoin, we have gone through the people that have access to the estate management list, again and are certain that this action is not being carried out by any of our staff. We are an active well established role play community so I dont want to close the region to public access or charge for passes even as this will severly hurt the community and is precisely what the perpetrator wants to happen. The estate managers are all active members of the region so I'm thinking that had one of their accounts been compromised they would know about it, IE the perpetrator would be doing other things with their account. The thing that does puzzle me somewhat is placing people on region ban is annoying but simple to fix, there are much more cripling things that could be done. regards

Any suggestions of what we can do, as at the moment this seems to be an ongoing problem, I am wondering how you resolved this situation, or what LL were able to do for you, if your not comfortable discussing it on a open forum please feel free to send me a personal message as this is affecting our traffic. reagards

I tend to agree that what I am describing should not be possible, none the less to date this has happen five times, usually with a week or a little longer between episodes, this all started a few months ago with a griefer rezzing security orbs on the sim, these initially ejected people from the sim by way of returing them home. Again this was using disposable accounts, we locked the sim down by restricting who could rez objects and the attacks stoped for a while. The owner has been in contact with LL and were running a performance and security evaluation on the sim, they thought that this was one of the estate managers as well, until the Linden was added to the estate ban as well by person / persons unknown. Re writing a tpv to achieve this seems like a lot of effort to go to, unless there are already viewers out there that can be made to do this, I thought that tpv viewers had to meet LL aproval before they could be used, otherwise they were blocked. Regards

This has been going on for some time, and the matter has been referred to LL, periodically we are finding all of the estate managers are being placed upon the land ban list by person / persons unknown. This seems to happen around once every week or so and the sim owner has to be contacted to remove people from the estate / land ban list. I am wondering how this is even possible for some one not who is not an estate manager to bann on mass people from a sim. And more importantly what we can do about it. From my findings to date this is likely to be some one using a disposable account who is coming onto the sim and I guess using a 'griefing' tool to achieve this as everyone on the estate manages list has been individually interviewed and are trusted members or the team.