Legal battle over Warcraft 'bot'
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Brooksie
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name='Toxcity' said:How dare you read BBC news.. you should only read OC3D news!
Yeah, it can ruin it for others.. but I think Blizzard are just being stupid.
I would, but it was on the BBC before OC3D...
Only thing I think Blizzard are sueing him for though is he sells it for money (they want it) and it pasts the anti-cheating system which they must of spent money making.. It's like you spent a year and loads of money making e.g. a wall then some angry hacker comes and shoots code at it and it explodes with gallons of code leaking everywhere xD
Rastalovich
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name='Jim' said:
Blizzard should fix it via ingame stuff, and basically grow up.
I don`t particularly condone bot`ing, but if it`s happening, it`s cos of your poor design imo.
NobodyNowhereNothing
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name='Jim' said:
But then how can they make money out of it?!
WC Annihilus
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Out of what? This is a legal battle we're talking about. I wouldn't be too surprised if they burn more money in legal fees than they ever could get out of this guy, not to mention the time they're going to spend compared to a patch. Besides, they make a hell of a lot of money from the game itself anyways
equk
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I've not seen the bot or whatever, but I doubt this is a small time exploit.
I say that because of the way Warden (the blizzard anti-cheat software) works. It is in itself amazingly complex. The way I could see a bot/cheat working on WoW without being detected is probably with some sort of rootkit technology or direct memory reading/writing. Similar to some cheats seen on games such as counterstrike and counterstrike source.
Warden accesses and actively scans the system memory (I think there were reports of it picking up various hooks, which is why direct memory could work). When it first came out there were reports of it reading stuff like window titles to find certain keywords aswell.
Also when it came out, the games FPS dropped by stupid amounts and was even unstable
I guess blizzard have made so much revenue from this single game, both in monthly subscriptions and in the game & expansions. If the bot has sold 100,000 copies, it is a big issue. Not that I have much respect/concern on blizzard or the people who play WoW for prolonged amounts of time
I say that because of the way Warden (the blizzard anti-cheat software) works. It is in itself amazingly complex. The way I could see a bot/cheat working on WoW without being detected is probably with some sort of rootkit technology or direct memory reading/writing. Similar to some cheats seen on games such as counterstrike and counterstrike source.
Warden accesses and actively scans the system memory (I think there were reports of it picking up various hooks, which is why direct memory could work). When it first came out there were reports of it reading stuff like window titles to find certain keywords aswell.
Also when it came out, the games FPS dropped by stupid amounts and was even unstable
I guess blizzard have made so much revenue from this single game, both in monthly subscriptions and in the game & expansions. If the bot has sold 100,000 copies, it is a big issue. Not that I have much respect/concern on blizzard or the people who play WoW for prolonged amounts of time
equk
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I just spoke to my bro who plays WoW and has it, and he says it is made by a company who made and sold a bot similar for a game called legend of MIR
Also he put it on with applications to test it and see what it does and it installs itself as a driver (using rootkit technology) and reads/writes to the memory. Also renaming itself on each time it is executed (as with so many known hacks) lol.
Also he put it on with applications to test it and see what it does and it installs itself as a driver (using rootkit technology) and reads/writes to the memory. Also renaming itself on each time it is executed (as with so many known hacks) lol.
Rastalovich
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name='equk' said:
If that`s LoM2, the bot(s) used in that were hijackable with means to retrieve your login/pass. In a number of download areas, they asked the user to enter their login/pass to prove they either played the game or hadn`t used it before - and people actually fell for that.
There were a good number that originated from China, some dood from holland or belgium converted to english, although there was a guy in the uk who wrote some free downloadable stuff to do similar things.
Those who bought such things, usually lost their gear off their chars sometime after.
Rastalovich
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name='equk' said:Not sure
My bro mentioned some hijaking ones ages ago tho, so maybe. But he hasn't paid for any bots before or had his account hijacked.
Mirlander was a cheat/bot program converted from chinese origins. It came in various versions (as game patches stopped it working). It did loads of nifty little things, including sending your l/p to it`s origins
