[Dxspider-support] PC41 and selfspotting

[Mike McCarthy, W1NR]

Is there any known way to track down the node generating these?

Mike, W1NR 

-----Original Message-----
From: dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org
[mailto:dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org] On Behalf Of Dirk Koopman
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 4:56 PM
To: The DXSpider Support list
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] PC41 and selfspotting

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 17:11 +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> A rather disturbing trend has started in recent weeks: it appears that 
> someone, probably in a privileged position, maybe even a sysop, has 
> decided to send out PC41/1s with the name 'Selfspotter' around the 
> network.

Having looked at it rather closer, I see that we are dealing with a "script
kiddie". Doing a "grepdbg selfspotter", selecting one of the callsigns
returned and doing a "grepdbg <call>" shows a remarkable correlation between
a "self spot" and then a PC41/1 "Selfspotter"
magically appearing within a few seconds (either before or after the spot -
vagaries of network). 

This really is not on. Please stop it.

Dirk G1TLH 


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