This Thread is the record of what occured during my brief and unfortunate, but at the same time unfortunate encounter wit illidari, a Hacker who derives sick pleasure from entering your server, and spawning insane amounts of mobs and gameobjects to lagg and kill your server.
Never Heard of Illidari? Well One of his best known attacks was WoW_Legend's server, which he killed. I wasnt personally there, but check the sticky
He ussually attacks all GM servers where The Admins will ussually look like one of the players is spawning the mobs.
My server everyone had teleport power, but the ad that my coAdmin made said "all-GM" . That was the lure.
Once he enters, he starts spawning hundreds of raid bosses in the emerald dream, Orgrimmar, Stormwind, and Ironforge. ussually also a rag at entrance of stormwind.
Creatyures "he" Spawns.
*Ragnaros
*King Gordok
*Nefarian
*Onyxia
*Archimonde
How can you tell hes checking out your server? a ragnaros at top of Mt. Ironforge.
Its not just from reading I know him, ive been GM or Admin on 4 servers He's attacked, I was assigned to figure out what was going for the first time in SveininGos Beta server.
September 19, 2007.
INGAME-
[Grim]: Yeah you can make your office here, skull.
[Skullstain]: K, i gtg do HW, ill make tommorow.
Just then as he logged out, i noticed around 400 "King gordok"s spawning next to me, in the center of the oprc barracks. suddenly I started spamming my delete macro and "tab" thinking it was some GM's Prank. so I Started Deleteing after I banned a GM that was banning other players at will. then I noticed that it was still happening, I unplugged the internet cable to my computer and sent a phone call to co-Admin, leaving server on for deleteing later, a HUGE mistake.
Phone call, about 7 Pm EST
[Me]: Hey dude, I just banned vagrant but mobs are still spawning ingame... It wasnt a GM, or a hacker. This is a new one, worse than the account joker.
[Dog6611]: Hey you should umm like contact one of the Emu Specialists with more Xp...
[Me]: Ill check if I can find anyone online...
[dog6611]: Naa, i can get him on MSN.
[Me]: K. tell him that a hacker got something in... that it keeps spawning even after i disconnected internet
{this is where i Remembered Sveiningos and Deathwow. now I really thank the two of you for letting me investigate your incidents while ingame. wouldnt have figured i out.}
Dog- he says its illidari.
Me- Oh Crap... not this guy again.
Dog- eh?
Me- He killed Deathwow. and Sveiningos beta. thats why sveining went not all GM, we thought it was a player,same on Deathwow.
Dog- So...
Me- Hes bad news. real bad.
dog- so...
Me- Ill have to keep server down till i can find prob.
{Just then I started one scan with Ad-Aware, one with Symantec, and one with Norton, and started disc clenup, Ad-Aware picked up a little bot along with some onther goodies. this bot is Illidari's method of spawning, it taps into your ascent.exe or antrix.exe to spawn the creaures.
<yes this is shortened version. would take too long to recall everything thsat happened yesterday,
To stop this, just do a spyware/virus scan and hope your scanner can pic it up, otherwise copy+paste acent+logon+realm confs and paste into a new repack, and dont sad ur serv as all GM.
For those who have lost their servers mid investigation by me, truly Sorry.