Goo attack - Griefornament

At approximately 16:50 SLT (Second Life Time) today, another goo attack commenced on the Second Life main grid with the first outbreaks being reported in the vicinity of the Cloudmont sim (as have others before). Alas goo attacks of this nature are not as uncommon as they could be - but freedom rather cuts both ways.

Linden Staffers and Liaisons began acknowledging reports at approximately 17:05 (although it's clear that they were already on the job), and Torley Linden posted a notice to the official linden blog about the attack at 17:15, approximately 25 minutes after the first reports.

Response from landowners and Linden Lab were relatively swift however, even this reaction is not without consequences. Sites such as the Shelter In Exile had large chunks returned to object owners due to panic and haste on the part of one or more land-officers trying to limit the spread of the self-replicating nuisances.

Griefornament makes repetitive annoying sounds, and spams people around it by sending copies of itself to them. Several variants of this object have appeared over the course of the last hour, including self-replicating candy-canes, and ornaments under another name. Do not accept objects from others if you do not trust the source.

 Linden Lab staff and liaisons are now laboring to clean up the mess. Impact on the grid has not been severe enough to warrant closing down logins.