ZEnet KLine

On this page you can find the contact information for our KLine team. You can also find the most common reasons for your
KLine, for how long you will be suspended and what you should do so that you do not receive a new KLine when connecting again.

Contact address: kline@zenet.org

[Exp/Aplore]
Nominal Duration : 48 Hours
User Action : Update your Anti-Virus utility.
Yoursystem may be infected by the w32.aplore@mm worm. Please update youranti-virus utility and run a full scan to detect and if necessary removethis worm. Further information about it and it’s effects can be foundonhttp://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.aplore@mm.html

[Exp/Trojan]
Nominal Duration : Permanent
User Action : Follow the instructions below to reconnect.
YourPC may be infected by a virus or trojan horse program.
If found you will need to remove the trojan and re-install your IRC client to reconnect to zenet.
You can obtain a freeware trojan scanner from Lockdown
Or you can use a modern anti-virus utility to detect and remove mosttrojans. Please be sure to update whichever program you use with thelatest definition files from the manufacturer.

[Exp/Fldhst]
Nominal Duration : 3 days to One Week
User Action : Secure your machine and wait for the ban to expire.
ThisIP address or IP block has possibly been involved in flooding attacks against our network.This is often the result of downloading files from untrusted sources which are infected with one of several trojan horseprograms.
Again, we recommend the use of a trojan scanner or modern anti-virus utility to detect and if necessary remove the trojan.
These autokills normally last for no more than one week, although they maybe extended if the machines are not secured during that period.

[Exp/Os]
Nominal Duration : 12 Hours normally, may be extendedin extreme situations.
User Action : Secure your machine and wait for the ban to expire.
ThisIP or IP block has possibly been involved in distributed Denial of Serviceattacks against our network.
This can be caused by downloading files from untrusted sources which are infected with one of several DDoS clientprograms.
We recommend the use of a trojan scanner or modern anti-virus
utility to search for and if necessary remove the trojan.
These autokills normally last for no more than 12 hours.
Although they will be extendedif the machines are not secured.

Forfurther information , click here.

[Exp/Comp]
Nominal Duration : 3 days to One Week
User Action : Secure your machine and wait for the ban to expire.
Yourmachine may have been compromised and be advertising it’s presence on IRC.
Information stored on your PC may be available to unauthorised persons as a result of this security breach.
Please check for trojans, viruses and compromised scripts.
You can find a freeware trojan scanner from LockdownCorp.
here which may help locate and remove the trojan.

[Exp/Clone]
Nominal Duration : 30 minutes to One Week
User Action : Wait for the ban to expire.
Please do not load clones onto zenet.
A clone is considered anything over ONE connection, although zenet will allow a maximum of 2 clients.

[Exp/Roe]
Nominal Duration : Permanent
User Action : Follw the instructions below to reconnect.
For security reasons we do not permit users to connect to IRC as the ROOT user from unix systems.
Please create a normal user account (preferably without enhanced permissions) and use that when connecting to zenet.
Users of windows who recieve this message need to change their ident setting.
As described in the Windows Ident section in the help file

[Exp]
Nominal Duration : Permanent
User Action : Contact your service provider.
This host is no longer welcome on zenet.
If you recieve this message from multiple IP addresses or hostnames.
It is probable that your domain has been banned.
Please ask your service provider for further information in this case.

[Exp/Ma]
Nominal Duration : 30 Minutes to One Week
User Action : Follow the instructions below and wait for the ban to expire.
Your machine may have been infected by trojan horse.
Which advertises one of several websites on zenet.
You should run a full scan of your system using a recently updated virus scanner or a dedicated anti-trojan.
Package such as Swat-It
To detect and if necessary remove the trojan.
When you have done this, wait for the ban to expire then reconnect to zenet.

[Exp/script]
Nominal Duration : 30 minutes to Permanent
User Action : Follow the instructions below.
Some scripts are abusive in nature and have been banned from zenet.
Usually these are ‘war scripts’ (Polaris, Seventh Sphere etc.)
Advertising scripts (X-Inviter, IRCAP) or clone scripts.
You will need to remove the script and reset your ident as described in the ident FAQ.
To reconnect to zenet.

Some users may find they are banned.
With this message even though they do not run one of the above scripts.
In this case, please reset your ident as described in the ident FAQ to reconnect.

[Exp/Inv]
Nominal Duration : 30min
User Action : Follow the instructions below.
Mass Inviting or Advertising is not allowed on ZEnet.
Continued abuse of this policy
Will result in a permanent ban from ZEnet IRC Network.

[Exp/Proxy]
Nominal Duration : 30 minutes to 12 hours
User Action : Follow the instructions below.
Open proxies is not allowed on ZEnet.
Continued abuse of this policy
Will result in a permanent ban from ZEnet IRC Network.