Questions tagged [bots]
43 questions
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Get a Telegram notification only when a word is used on a channel
I'm subscribed to a Telegram channel that sometimes sends more than 20 messages a minute but I'm really interested in one or two of those messages a day.
The messages I'm interested in all will contain a particular word.
So far what I do is to mute…
DGaleano
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Is automated web site access legal?
Many web sites include in their terms of service things about automated access being prohibited. One example is in ebay's robots.txt file:
The use of robots or other automated means to access the eBay site\n
without the express permission of…
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What is the effect of ticking "This is a bot account" in Mastodon?
If I edit my profile I get the option to mark my account as a bot account:
Currently the Mastodon documentation mentions the attribute, but doesn't explain what effect it…
lofidevops
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Spyware used my gmail account to send thousands of spam e-mails to all my trusted contacts, what should I do?
I just logged in to my gmail and was shocked by the amount of automatic responses I got in my inbox. I then looked at my sent messages folder and noticed that apparently, thousands of spam e-mails were sent using my gmail to all my contacts.
These…
Tom
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slack bot running stops working occassionally
I'm following heroku's post including this specific section. If I make a noop change and I'm running a new deploy, the bot responds. But then after some time, I see bot stops responding:
The heroku dashboard shows nothing weird (does not show it's…
lf215
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Operate mouse by drawn paths?
Can I set my mouse to follow a path? Not a recorded path but a drawn path? (with anchor points and handles) Better yet can I make it click at certain intervals?
Rublacava
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HuBot with HipChat: connecting, listening but not talking
I am try to configure HuBot to work with HipChat. My HuBot appears to be connecting and listening correctly, however is not responding to anything. I would appreciate any thoughts on what the problem could be, or how to go about debugging the issue…
George Thomas
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Wildcard blocking of bots in Apache
I run a site which provides Subversion & TRAC for lots of open source projects. This works pretty well with one exception: Many search engines do not care about robots.txt and DoS the webserver with many parallel requests in TRAC, for example the…
Adrian Gschwend
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Why is my Administrator name always changing to "zeus"?
On Windows 7, my Administrator account is changing the name from time to time to "zeus" and the password also is being reset.
I've installed and cleaned my PC with a few malware removers (Ad-Aware, Spybot, Trojan Remover, HiJackThis, Rubotted,…
Vanilla
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Mysterious event log message
I saw this message in my event log today. I tried searching on it without much success.
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slashdottir
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How to remove bots from my computer?
Because trend micro's rubotted detected that there is a bot running on my system and recommends to run Trend micro's house call to remove the bot.
But when I ran house call, it does not detect anything. By the way,my current antivirus software is…
soul
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With a bot, how do I avoid or handle IRC server MOTD's?
I have an IRC bot written in Python that works fairly well. I think the issue is with my limited knowledge of the IRC protocol, so IRC gurus are particularly welcome here :D
When you first connect to an IRC network, a MOTD usually gets displayed.…
LiamMeron
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Can a virus send mail from my computer if I don't have Outlook?
My ISP does not allow SMTP port 25 connections outside its network but only port 587. I don't use a desktop mail client like Outlook.
Can a virus still send spam mail from my computer? How?
Raouf Athar
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Users\bots hitting weird urls on my site
Few times a day every day I get something hitting my site on urls like this:
/MSOffice/cltreq.asp?UL=1&ACT=4&BUILD=6551&STRMVER=4&CAPREQ=0
/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?UL=1&ACT=4&BUILD=6551&STRMVER=4&CAPREQ=0
The user agent is this:
UserAgent Mozilla/4.0…
Dan
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Is it possible to set up a service/application like Jotti's malware scan?
I would like to scan files that are under 500/100 MB. Sadly, Jotti only scans files up to 25 MB. Is it possible to set up a service like that at home?
The only way I know to run so many anti-virus engines, is using virtual machines. But that would…
Apache
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