
See this section for our Membership Guidelines The First thing to do before you proceed is change your profile image. Go out into the Virtualworlds and bring back something nice to share. If you own any land, ban him from your land as well.******IMPORTANT PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS****** They may be used by the developer to invade your computer and steal your personal information.Īnd you should Abuse Report the person who hacked into your group, and also Mute him. These viewers not only contain functions that let you violate the Terms of Service (which can get you banned from SL!) but some of them contain malware. ESPECIALLY do not use a viewer that you have to pay money for. In any event, I do NOT recommend that anyone use Darkstorm, or any viewer that isn't on the approved Third Party Viewer list. The worst any graphics crasher has ever done to me is crash my viewer, requiring a re-log.

I have heard that it's possible to physically damage a graphics card in this way, but I have never seen hard proof of that. Again, this is not a viewer function, but is done with a device that presents a large number of corrupt textures to your graphics card. It's also possible to use a "graphics crasher" that will cause your graphics card to malfunction and dump you out of Second Life. Nothing I read indicates that Darkstorm can "hack into anybody's account/groups." I am not saying that this did not happen to you, but I don't think it was done via the Darkstorm viewer.

Someone using copybot can copy just about anything in Second Life (except scripts), and from a YouTube video I watched, it looks like Darkstorm can also copy particle-generating scripts (at least.) The main reason that Darkstorm is not approved is that it contains "copybot" features. It's a tweaked version of the popular Firestorm viewer (which IS on the approved list.)

I did a little Googling and found the Darkstorm viewer site.ĭarkstorm is not an "illegal" viewer, although it is NOT on the list of viewers that voluntarily comply with LL's Third Party Viewer requirements.
