Nazi spambots are spamming various IRC servers and linking to a
YouTube stream. What do?
reddit / irc

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noeatnosleep · 2017-11-26 05:50

What servers? Contact the admins of that server.

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iownall555 · 2017-11-26 05:50

Have your channel mods ban the user and then report it to the network
staff.

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lud1120 · 2017-11-26 05:56

Been going on for months, but has really ramped up recently. The bots
use random IPs all the time, random VPNs and Tor. When it comes to
trolls the best measure is to ignore it, except that it doesn't end.
And it's so obnoxious with pinging as many usernames as possible and
screaming something about N-word and "white nationalism". We've tried
to have registered usernames only, but that hinders the growth of the
channels too.

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svn · 2017-11-26 10:41

"Nazi spambots" lmao

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GTB3NW · 2017-11-26 12:31

Block tor, move on

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slimethecold · 2017-11-26 21:15

just ban and ignore. they'll keep coming but there's not much you can
do unless it's your own network.

EDIT: maybe try setting +r, but they often do register their accounts

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coldf2 · 2017-11-26 21:56

What server? I havent noticed any

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rockintheairwaves · 2017-12-11 08:25

If this works like a lot of the spambots we see, generally the bot
will connect and then request a list of channels on the server. Then
they will start joining channels from that list and sending out their
messages.

We have cut down on a lot of that by implementing a mandatory delay
where a user must be connected to the server for a certain amount of
time before they can use the /LIST command. Actually, what's more
interesting is our particular software does it in such a way where the
user receives a notice regarding the delay that they have to wait for,
but all of the numerics that the list command normally would return
are actually returned to the user. So if they use the command before
the delay is up, they are essentially given an empty channel list
along with a notice letting them know that they have to wait a certain
amount of time. Spambots just take this as no channels existing on the
server and move on.

We use InspIRCd which has a module to implement this, and I would
wager that other server software does as well. Check the documentation
for the particular server software in use and see.

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jmerc83 · 2017-12-16 19:34

which ban should they use considering only \*!\*@* will work.

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