[Opensim-users] Annoying Spammer on Openvue Grid - But why don't the objects show in abot land?

[Jeff Kelley]

At 9:52 AM +0000 20/12/13, Ai Austin wrote:

>Note that I found no prims or primitems after my tidy up, but I did 
>find over 8,000
>entries in the "assets" table (with the Spammer as the creatorID) 
>and it was still
>growing at a rate of 10-20 a minute before I brought the system down 
>and restored
>to an earlier backup version. And the HG visitor was not logged in 
>at the time.
>
>So I think items in world can create "assets" in the databases that 
>are not garbage
>collected when the assets are deleted or returned.  hence it would be easy for
>someone with a script or generator to create millions of such assets and ruin
>any grid even if it just had one tiny patch for visitors to rez and 
>unpack boxes.


I see another possibility : rezing a box with a huge inventory. The 
HG transfer may end well after the visitor has left.

There are few ways to create assets programmatically : 
osMakeNotecard, osDrawImage , osSetDynamicTextureData and 
derivatives, osNpcSaveAppearance. Not sure our spammer is smart 
enough to write a database-spamming script, since he doesn't know how 
to do auto-reps (the spheres i've seen on Fleep's grid were not 
scripted).


-- Jeff