Hacking techniques
Ok, you're logged in, you've tricked the system into giving you admin access. The IC came along because you're new, and scanned you. You can't tell it not to scan you, because thats what it does. It'll move along, scan other targets, then come back, scan you again eventually. You can tell the node to shut down a program (like the sphinx IC) down, but you can't tell the IC what to do, its not programmed for that.
Since this is a game, and you aren't expected to know how to be a real hacker, lets go through this. It takes X amount of time to scan each user on the node, so if you don't want to shut down the IC, you could simply increase the number of active users on the node, which will take the IC longer to scan everything, basically a Denial-of-Service attack. This will of course make the spider(s) and IC aware that something is going on, but it'll give you more time while the system is busy.
But honestly, you've got pretty good rolls, so we'll continue on with what you're diong.
As far as finding spiders, spiders are just users, probably admin users, but possibly hidden admin users, so you could list other admin users, and you could search for connected accounts that aren't listed as a usertype (hidden).
I'll post the rest in the main thread.
Richard M.
Grimfang"Whisper"Xaeraes