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Sniff the spammers, then post their WOL names. [message #1833]

Sun, 02 March 2003 20:49

Blazer
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While the Renegade game/client itself does not reveal who sent the page, if you run a sniffer it will. Heres the way it works. when you type "/invite Blazer", it just sends me a normal page with the text "<WWINVITE>". And the Renegade game/client will say "Javaxcx invited you to join him blah blah blah". If you reject his invitation and click "Decline" instead of "join", it sends them a normal page, with "<WWDECLINE>". This makes renegade say "Yo!" and "Your invitation was declined".

Now...the spammers log into relay and just cut and paste or using an mirc script to just flood you with <WWDECLINE> pages.

Here's the good part. As I said, while the renegade game/client itself does not show who these pages are from, a sniffer will. Remember, you are getting a NORMAL page, just as if you typed /page blazer0x <WWDECLINE>. So if you run a sniffer, you WILL see a page from the spammer, including their WOL username.

I suggest you install Ethereal http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/ethereal-setup-0.9.9.exe

Play with it a bit, learn how to start up a capture quickly. Then the next time you are hit with one of these spam attacks, just alt-tab out of renegade, fire up ethereal and now you will have a log of their username.

I'm not going to give a sniffing-101 in how to use Ethereal, but I can tell you the most useful way to view the packet log is to find one definite packet, and click on it and select "view tcp stream". Ethereal will then open up a window and show you all the packets in easy to read plaintext format.

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		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: Javaxcx on Sun, 02 March 2003 20:39
		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: Deathgod on Sun, 02 March 2003 20:42
		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: ----- on Sun, 02 March 2003 20:44
		Sniff the spammers, then post their WOL names. By: Blazer on Sun, 02 March 2003 20:49
		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: Javaxcx on Sun, 02 March 2003 20:54
		Oo By: ----- on Sun, 02 March 2003 20:54
		Re: Oo By: Blazer on Sun, 02 March 2003 21:06
		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: ----- on Sun, 02 March 2003 21:10
		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: [sg]the0ne on Sun, 02 March 2003 21:29
		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: DaveGMM on Mon, 03 March 2003 00:27
		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: Sk8rRIMuk on Mon, 03 March 2003 01:59
		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: Majiin Vegeta on Mon, 03 March 2003 02:31
		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: Sk8rRIMuk on Mon, 03 March 2003 02:38
		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: Javaxcx on Wed, 05 March 2003 17:57
		Re: Sniff the spammers, then post their WOL names. By: Griever92 on Wed, 05 March 2003 18:01
		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: Blazer on Wed, 05 March 2003 19:31
		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: Javaxcx on Thu, 06 March 2003 13:41
		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: Blazer on Thu, 06 March 2003 15:31
		More morons utilizing the "Relay" to spam attack By: Griever92 on Thu, 06 March 2003 19:53

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