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May 30, 2001, 12:06am

This is a possilbe world theft alert. My world(Billy!) is being hosted by
someone who is not suppose to. Only two people have the password and
settings to my world, one i know is not hosting, the other is not on AW at
this moment. If ANYBODY has the power to contact AW Server HQ ASAP, please
do so, tell them to cut the connection with whom ever is hosting on my go,
just in case that someone who is hosting has stoped and my world is back to
normal. Either way, this is possibly a world theft and hack. I want as many
people as possible contacting EVERYBODY about this. Thank you.

May 30, 2001, 2:21am

Change your password! Then contact Peacekeeper at activeworlds.com about this.
Telling them is like filing a police report though... They may not be able
to do anything about it without hard evidence.

SW Chris

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May 30, 2001, 11:03am

Ok, first thing, calm down. Next thing, call awcom (978) 499-0222, and ask
them to change your password for your world Billy!, you can also e-mail them
about this :-) or telegram and awcom staff member. The password will go
into effect, the world will be dropped and you can host it again.

~Joeman


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May 30, 2001, 1:26pm

guess what, I got the same problem with a world I was supposed to host. (I
will not mention any names, to keep privacy intact) the first day went fine,
but the second day when I started up the world I got "World running
elsewhere", I asked the owner, he sayd he didn't know who it was. After a
while a guy asked me about the prop & atdump of the world, saying he was the
new host. because nothing special was buit the first day (less than 10
objects) I sayd I didn't have it. later when I told this to the owner, he
sayd he had not asked the other host to host, and didn't even seem to have
met the person. I guess I should ask him to change his world password trough
the AWCI...

KAH

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May 30, 2001, 3:12pm

First off, you only let people you trust host the world. Second, this is
your problem, no one else needs to contact AW.

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May 31, 2001, 12:59am

Ok, here is how it goes. My world is back and running. I did contact PKs,
including Baron. MY pass was changed and I did contact AWCOM. I wanted
everyone to talk about this cause if AW ends up with 1000000 in their email
box, BOY are they going to do something. So this not only was a way to get
my world back in order, but a way to stop the hack who has been doing this.
I have learned from one of the replys to my message this happend to them, so
I would suggest an alert of a hacker or virus. Most likely a virus, being
that a hacker would take more then a single pass. Well I'm not pointing
figures or saying "BOMB!" on a plane, but this is a precaution we must take
all you world owners.

May 31, 2001, 1:21am

well billybob i guess i am just bored tonight but i went and read your other
[View Quote] > This is a possilbe world theft alert. My world(Billy!) is being hosted by
> someone who is not suppose to. Only two people have the password and
> settings to my world, one i know is not hosting, the other is not on AW at
> this moment. If ANYBODY has the power to contact AW Server HQ ASAP, please
> do so, tell them to cut the connection with whom ever is hosting on my go,
> just in case that someone who is hosting has stoped and my world is back to
> normal. Either way, this is possibly a world theft and hack. I want as many
> people as possible contacting EVERYBODY about this. Thank you.

and for the life of me I can't understand anything you said LOL glad the PK
could and whoever else read it :)
hope you learned a lesson and know who IS hosting your world LOL and why in the
world did you give 2 people your world password ? hmm *shrugs*
( i can see you giving them ED but your world password? )
(*¿~)


[View Quote] > Ok, here is how it goes. My world is back and running. I did contact PKs,
> including Baron. MY pass was changed and I did contact AWCOM. I wanted
> everyone to talk about this cause if AW ends up with 1000000 in their email
> box, BOY are they going to do something. So this not only was a way to get
> my world back in order, but a way to stop the hack who has been doing this.
> I have learned from one of the replys to my message this happend to them, so
> I would suggest an alert of a hacker or virus. Most likely a virus, being
> that a hacker would take more then a single pass. Well I'm not pointing
> figures or saying "BOMB!" on a plane, but this is a precaution we must take
> all you world owners.

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