[Opensim-users] Hypergrid

[Gary Banham]

Then I'm Glad the bot comes to my grid
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Vanish
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 9:27 PM
To: Jigs at westernprairies.net; opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Hypergrid

Sweet.JaneX is the bot of the hypergate network (http://thehypergates.com/). It checks if the hypergated regions are up.

> I noticed at least a couple or three mantis reports included the name 
> of someone I am trying to learn more about and what they are in my 
> regions;
>
> Sweet.JaneX
>
> AKA:
>
> Sweet.JaneX at 204.236.242.209
> Sweet.JaneX at infinitegrid.org
>
>  I wanted to find out what this individual from infinite grid (she/he 
> has an  @infinitegrid in their user name) is doing on my regions and 
> why this  individual (if its not  a bot) sees me and teleports away 
> suddenly, avoids every attempted contact via IM or local chat and NC 
> to inquire what they want on my regions. This avatar  comes to my 
> regions and just STANDS there as though they are running a  copybot or 
> something, very suspicious behavior that has been going on since last 
> summer.
>
> I had HG turned OFF for the last few weeks, I turned it back on last 
> night around 3 AM and at  6:56 AM the logs show this avatar landed on 
> my region!
>
>
> From this morning;
>
>  [06:56 AM]  IM: 128.128 NM: Sweet.JaneX @204.236.242.209 entered New  
> Mexico.
>
>  Apparently bans do not work over the HG at all for an individual, 
> "sweet janeX" is in my estate ban list but theres no way to enter the 
> HG version (appears to have an acct on OSgrid too) The ip ban script 
> given to me was set up for this ip, but it did not record any action 
> against this avatar this morning.
>
> In googling this name as
>
>  "sweet.janex" +opensim
>
>  I found several mantis reports that included this name in the crash 
> logs and others, I am suspecting some kind of bot now, suddenly 
> showing up within hours of turning the HG in the ini back on smacks an 
> awful lot like some scripted bot is monitoring something, either my 
> specific regions or OSgrid itself, either way I'm finding the 
> behaviour of this disturbing and of concern.
>
> Timber Wolfe
> OSgrid
>
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