Short answer. You suck or whoever coded your game sucks. ;-)


All the advice on securing your server, your shell and your source is sound. Those attacking your mud from outside the mud are the problem children.

I personally don't consider anyone who exploit bugs or takes advantage of any flaw (or perceived flaw) in the game to be a cheater at all. Even repeatedly crashing the game is fair play as far as I'm concerned. IMO, the only people who can cheat in a mud are immortals (By can I mean have the capability).