I’ve rethought the image retrieval technique, and the new revamped system is now 100% working. If you have already added the bot and it is showing offline, please just delete it and readd it. Over the last couple of days there have been a lot of struggles, mainly with getting the GD image stuff working, and the change between the “ADD” and the “ADC” command in MSN Protocol 11 from MSN Protocol 9. Instead of encrypting the username, I am storing a username in the database that is unrelated to your msn messenger address. To use the bot, just follow this simple technique.
Add blobsy@brentp.net
Once the bot comes online, open a conversation with it and type “!setusername ” remember, the username cannot contain spaces, &’s, and the other normal items that dont show up properly in a http request. Once you do that it’ll spit out your URL’s. The system supports two image themes. There is the Windows Live Messenger 8 Style, and the MSN7 Style.
Heres an example (live):
WLM:
MSN 7 Theme:
If you cannot get it working, please contact me at brent.pickup[nospam]@gmail.com (msn and email).
Remove all the stuff between the []’s.
Regards,
Brent
Recently, there have been a lot of changes in the IM Community and the Torrent community. The BitTorrent client BitComet has been banned from numerous torrent communitys. The ban probably encapsulates BitLord as well, since it is based off the BitComet source code. This is because the client does not respect the private tag, and thus shares the torrent publicly on the DHT Network. This practice is frowned upon in tightly-knit torrent communities.
In other news, the first beta invitations for Windows Live Messenger 8.0 have been sent out to beta testers. These testers are generally people who have been in the 7.0 and 7.5 programs. The links that have been provided in emails sent out by the MSN team will not work until the 13/12/05. Enjoy.
From what I have heard, no-one can invite their friends yet.
Earler today, I posted about the AIM “talk virus”. The Firefox web browser has a fairly crippling vulnerability that was discovered recently. If a web page has a long title, the browsers history.dat file can be corrupted, thus making the browser un startable. Mozilla stated recently that it is working on a patch, and it advised users to be careful in their web surfing habits. There has been a proof of concept that has been posted on the internet. The link to the PoC is at the bottom of the article. If you go to it, you will not be able to start Firefox again unless you delete the history.dat file from your profile. This is generally in C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
\history.dat.
Proof of Concept: Do not click this unless you intend to disable your browser. Ok. If you do, it’s not my fault.
Just the other day, I decided to get AIM. Just a few days after I get aim, i hear that there is a new virus that affects AIM users. This virus is generally a run-of-the-mill IM worm, but it actually speaks to its victims. An example of what is does is below:
Sender:
Receiver: is that a virus?
Sender: lol no its not a virus.
Very simple, yet very effective. Be sure not to fall for that one. On other news, I managed to get ASP.NET working on the server…after a few hours of failed attempts. Me thinks that cPanel needs to fine tune their installers.
Source: http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/12/07/145243.shtml?tid=120&tid=172
