AmyRose Starfall Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Ok 2 nights ago signed out and i kept spamming all my groups, and everyone is yelling at me and it's all happening when i'm offline. I tried changing my password but it's still happening i really don't want to delete my account or have it disabled because of this but idk what to do and it keeps happening in every viewer i switch to. IDK what to do pls help me :(( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Solo Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Have one of the people affected give you a copy of the text you allegedly sent. That may yield some clues. I can think of so many possibilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janelle Darkstone Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 It sounds like there might be a scripted object that is spamming your groups. Two days ago did you accept any strange items from anyone? Click any odd signs? Do you have items and objects rezzed inworld? Have you been in any busy sandboxes lately? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bee Baroque Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 duplicate: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Account/How-do-you-know-your-account-is-hacked-by-a-bot/qaq-p/1007293 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyRose Starfall Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 not that I know of and no I haven't built anything in sand boxes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyRose Starfall Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 this seems to be the message i'm getting from everyone and it appeared in my email that was linked to my secondlife account AmyRose Starfall: Hello, friend Good news for you! I found a wonderful website walafa.com and bought a laptop. How amazing, they take 5 days to send to my home. On their web, they have many products. If you need to buy something, you can go to look and check it Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janelle Darkstone Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 It's also possible someone is logging you in and sending the spam manually. You've changed your password and it's still happening? You might consider downloading and running one of the spyware/keylogger applications, like Malwarebyte's Ant-malware or Spybot - Seach & Destroy in order to make sure nobody is accessing your computer from anywhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyRose Starfall Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 yes i've done that but everything comes up clean, anyway I've change the email adress my account is linked to and all the passwords for my emails hopefully this will help =/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innula Zenovka Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 What happens if they click on your name as it appears in the IM window? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceka Cianci Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 i wonder if it's some relay with someone that knows your ID..i saw someone do this..it all comes in that botty like green chat.. this girl was messing with this one dj we knew and she had some script that would make it look like they were saying things but it was her entering the words using their ID.. are they getting this in IM's or general chat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyRose Starfall Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 not sure but some of them knew i was offline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyRose Starfall Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Far as i know it's not an object and it's all done in IM whenever I sign off, when a group post like an event or something then it IMs and spams that group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innula Zenovka Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 It's easy enough to write a script that will spoof someone's name in chat or in IMs to another avatar, but I can't see how it would work with spamming group chat, because scripts can't post to groups. Only avatars can do that. The simplest explanation -- which is why I asked about what happens if someone clicks the OP's name in the group chat -- is that someone's adopted her name as a display name and is using that to post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyRose Starfall Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Innula Zenovka wrote: It's easy enough to write a script that will spoof someone's name in chat or in IMs to another avatar, but I can't see how it would work with spamming group chat, because scripts can't post to groups. Only avatars can do that. The simplest explanation -- which is why I asked about what happens if someone clicks the OP's name in the group chat -- is that someone's adopted her name as a display name and is using that to post. I think you maybe right about that because everyone gave me this Message, if i sent both my display name and my sl name would be showing but it's only my sl name. AmyRose Starfall: Hello, friend Good news for you! I found a wonderful website walafa.com and bought a laptop. How amazing, they take 5 days to send to my home. On their web, they have many products. If you need to buy something, you can go to look and check it Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoebe Avro Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Just trying to get your post count higher bee? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WADE1 Jya Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 The style of operation does seem like it is using a bot, as it seems to have a little more capabilities then an inworld LSL-scripted item could do as a stand-alone... I would be unsure the account is hacked, but yes perhaps it could be at risk. Keep in mind that the bot needn't access her account to do this (simple to execute through access to friends list data in conjunction with an inworld scripted object renaming itself to name-match). The fact it is promoting a web store makes me think of some organized malware-bot operation, not an individual hacker. Please do mention this issue to Linden Lab support, you can file a support ticket here at SL support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bee Baroque Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Phoebe Avro wrote: Just trying to get your post count higher bee? lol :smileyindifferent: i spend the majority of my time here helping people in the answers section. for people offering their time and knowledge to help a poster it is preferable having all the info in one place. why, shouldn't have to be explained. when people do post duplicates it's common to tie the threads together this way. how someone can read something else into this is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peewee Musytari Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Phoebe Avro wrote: Just trying to get your post count higher bee? lol That was uncalled for!! Bee made a perfectly legitimate post & I was going to post the same thing, when I had that deju vu feeling on this thread, until I saw Bee had already done it. Keep up the good work Bee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bee Baroque Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 thank you, peewee :matte-motes-bashful-cute-2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 I got a spam message today from someone I didn't know, and when I looked at her profile it seemed unlikely she was interested in spamming for the website link in the message, so I contacted her to let her know. Others had informed her as well. She is calling LL now to inform them. The message was exactly like any other IM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyRose Starfall Posted August 4, 2011 Author Share Posted August 4, 2011 I hate to be dumb, but if it happens again what category would i put this under? WADE1 Jya wrote: The style of operation does seem like it is using a bot, as it seems to have a little more capabilities then an inworld LSL-scripted item could do as a stand-alone... I would be unsure the account is hacked, but yes perhaps it could be at risk. Keep in mind that the bot needn't access her account to do this (simple to execute through access to friends list data in conjunction with an inworld scripted object renaming itself to name-match). The fact it is promoting a web store makes me think of some organized malware-bot operation, not an individual hacker. Please do mention this issue to Linden Lab support, you can file a support ticket here at SL support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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