Warcraft III Spam Bots

[LeaderDark]

Well. One of my friends is in a clan that was completely destroyed by bots.There were over 50 bots entering the channel, all the same name spamming and they disabled the warcraft III anti-spam thing. Each bot was doing 100 posts a second untill warcraft kicked them all. I wish I could have taken a screen shot but they did it to quickly. I was wondering if there was a way to prevent this from happending to you, because people were disconnected for not even spamming because of the huge spam from the bots.

 

[gromhellscream666]

i dont think their is a way to stop it.

 

[LeaderDark]

That sucks. These bots were sending viruses somehow...

 

[lorothrigs]

That sucks. These bots were sending viruses somehow...

Yeah...don't think that's possible...

 

[DoOs_101]

Hey lorothrigs!
Anyways those bots are spywares

 

[LeaderDark]

Yup, spywares can give you viruses or contain them.

 

[gromhellscream666]

if they are sending spyware arround or virus my sugestion would be to get avast(virsu protection) great 1 too

 

[DoOs_101]

Or Karpesky go to www.9down.com to download or see reviews about Karpesky.

 

[lorothrigs]

Hey lorothrigs!
Anyways those bots are spywares

IOMFG OMF GOMFG OMF GOMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMF GOMF DSF!@!#@#!@!#$@!# DOOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On topic: If they are spyware, the other way to get the spyware is by running the bot on your computer. Not from having a bot in the channel you're also in.

 

[Mecheon]

Warcraft can't transmit viruses, unless you download a map and it somehow puts a virus on your computer

Things existing in the same channel as you do not cause spyware to enter your computer

 

[Chaos]

If they whisper you, use the ignore command "/o igw"

If you want to prevent them to enter your Clan channel, use this: "/clan private"
(Chieftain or shamans is able to activate this, undo with "/clan public")

You're are familiar with the avaible commands ?

In addition, like Mecheon wrote before,

Warcraft can't transmit viruses, unless you download a map and it somehow puts a virus on your computer

Impossible like you presented it.

Chaos

 

[Jacek]

Nice troll

 

[Freakazoid]

The max number of people in a channel is 40. How can there be over 50 bots?

 

[LeaderDark]

Im not sure. It said the clan name (85)

 

[SuPa-]

WC3 can give viruses... I kept getting spy ware every time I logged on for a few days, but then I stopped getting it

 

[lorothrigs]

No it can't. Not unless Blizzard itself does it. Maps can't do it unless someone manages to put a Buffer Overflow exploit in a map, which seems like it'd be kind of hard..

 

[Jacek]

ur so stupid omfg

 

[lorothrigs]

ur so stupid omfg

Uhm, okay?

 

[Jacek]

yeah... how the fuck warcraft can install spyware and viruses? and how can 60 bots join the channel?

 

[aarkshark]

Uhm. I'm going out on a limb here, but possibly HE had viruses allready, OR.... the internet, which is used for battle.net last time I checked, was used to transmit viruses to your computer.
But, I'm not a genius at these things.

 

[PyroManiac606]

today in the clan recruitment channels on useast and uswest... the channels were full of bots... over 70!! the max clan recruitment can hold is 99 and the spamming was so bad that i had 2 sign on uswest and tell an admin about it and then they had trouble fixing it cause it was just random names massively spamming the crap out of the channels

 

[LeaderDark]

The people that run these bots can find and trace you I.P. and from there they can grab your email and email virus you. Don't under-estimate these hackers

 

[DoOs_101]

Hey loro rather than buzzing around with these people, lets talk business. I need you back in making maps with me , pm me as soon as you can.

thx

 

[Tonks]

Uhm. I'm going out on a limb here, but possibly HE had viruses allready, OR.... the internet, which is used for battle.net last time I checked, was used to transmit viruses to your computer.
But, I'm not a genius at these things.

There is no direct connection between you and other users in a Battle.Net channel.

So please, those of you insisting that you can get viruses simply by logging on to BNet, stop. You make yourselves look ignorant and gullible.

The people that run these bots can find and trace you I.P. and from there they can grab your email and email virus you. Don't under-estimate these hackers

L O L

WC3 can give viruses... I kept getting spy ware every time I logged on for a few days, but then I stopped getting it

That happened because you're a porn obsessed 12-year-old and you're trolling through countless sites downloading it.

 

[brad.dude03]

That happened because you're a porn obsessed 12-year-old and you're trolling through countless sites downloading it.

LMFAO.

This is probably the funniest thing I have ever heard you say, Tonks

Anyway, they're all right. It is extremely unlikely that you can get a virus from WC3 and spyware and such just isn't happening. Bots are a nuisance, but not a threat.

 

[lorothrigs]

The people that run these bots can find and trace you I.P. and from there they can grab your email and email virus you. Don't under-estimate these hackers

No, the only way to get someone's IP in warcraft is to host a game. Not only that, but there isn't a way to get an email from someone's IP unless you contact the ISP, ask them to lookup all email address accessed from that IP. Which is not even feasible, except for Maybe the government.

 

[aarkshark]

There is no direct connection between you and other users in a Battle.Net channel.

So please, those of you insisting that you can get viruses simply by logging on to BNet, stop. You make yourselves look ignorant and gullible.

I meant that using battle.net opens the internet (I think), thus causing viruses that were waiting on his connection/computer to gain acess.

But, I was serious when I say I don't know about these things, I'm just guessing.

 

[chaosraider]

it Might be the doing of the laughing man
Hes back ????