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iowan
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posted 31 July 2001 05:09     Click Here to See the Profile for iowan   Click Here to Email iowan        Reply w/Quote   Visit iowan's Homepage!
this is an article about blizzard spying on your pc when u play b.net

true or false ??

http://www.securitynewsportal.com/article.php?sid=299&mode=thread&order=0

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BMW
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posted 31 July 2001 05:34     Click Here to See the Profile for BMW   Click Here to Email BMW        Reply w/Quote   Visit BMW's Homepage!
Yes. Its true. Prove this to yourself by using a packet sniffer and connecting to bnet.

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Mephistopheles
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posted 01 August 2001 11:01     Click Here to See the Profile for Mephistopheles   Click Here to Email Mephistopheles        Reply w/Quote   
Thats so not cool, I a liked [key word liked] Blizz. Well hmm... I think I now have 2nd thoughts on them.

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Squall
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posted 04 August 2001 18:45     Click Here to See the Profile for Squall   Click Here to Email Squall        Reply w/Quote   
*tries to hide folders of information on iowan*

Actually from what i hear yeah it is true,they also said something like a while back that if you use a charcter editor even on your OPEN guys you WILL be banned from battle.net play.I guess items created from them were being leaked into realms somehow or other not quite sure what they are doing or saying on it.Hey is that a doughnut on the floor?

*runs*

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MPHG
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posted 04 August 2001 18:51     Click Here to See the Profile for MPHG   Click Here to Email MPHG        Reply w/Quote   Visit MPHG's Homepage!
Big brother's watching, we watch him back
We see right through his disguise
He tries to scare us, with angry words
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Is it beginning or the end?
Just like a chess game, but so intense
That I just don't understand
Anticipation
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Cause he's got nothing to say
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Think of the children of today
Big brother's marching
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I figured it fitted here
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iowan
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posted 05 August 2001 01:03     Click Here to See the Profile for iowan   Click Here to Email iowan        Reply w/Quote   Visit iowan's Homepage!
quote:
Originally posted by Squall:
*tries to hide folders of information on iowan*

Actually from what i hear yeah it is true,they also said something like a while back that if you use a charcter editor even on your OPEN guys you WILL be banned from battle.net play.I guess items created from them were being leaked into realms somehow or other not quite sure what they are doing or saying on it.Hey is that a doughnut on the floor?

*runs*


if they ban everybody from open that uses a editor , there will be nobody left on open , or almost no-one

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Zhoulomcrist
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posted 07 August 2001 02:30     Click Here to See the Profile for Zhoulomcrist        Reply w/Quote   
Good thing I use an FSGS server (this system) to do my battle.net playin' instead of that battle.net then .

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isilweo
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posted 08 August 2001 09:13     Click Here to See the Profile for isilweo   Click Here to Email isilweo        Reply w/Quote   
poor modders... we all use save editors to test many things in our mods... everyone of us will be baned from bnet? that's not fair ))

blizz makes me laugh

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Starwolf
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posted 15 August 2001 17:13     Click Here to See the Profile for Starwolf   Click Here to Email Starwolf        Reply w/Quote   
Well, if hackers are getting banned from bnet, I certainly hope the person who hacked into my level 66 barb and gave him considerably less hit points than he should of is hapily playing single player right now.

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fecesfaerie
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posted 15 August 2001 23:51     Click Here to See the Profile for fecesfaerie   Click Here to Email fecesfaerie        Reply w/Quote   
I don't know if the article can be found anymore, but a few years ago there was something put up about a lawsuit Blizzard was involved in because of a hard drive sniffing program imbedded into Starcraft (I believe that's the right game). They're persistant if nothing else

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Starwolf
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posted 16 August 2001 08:43     Click Here to See the Profile for Starwolf   Click Here to Email Starwolf        Reply w/Quote   
THEY are a bunch of jerks that need less free time if they're going to spend it making my killing machines vulnerable wimps. It's for that reason why I switched to playing mods. (Plus Eastern Sun is hella fun!)

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Little_Marc
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posted 04 November 2001 19:55     Click Here to See the Profile for Little_Marc   Click Here to Email Little_Marc        Reply w/Quote   Visit Little_Marc's Homepage!
Yeah... EDITED....

[This message has been edited by Little_Marc (edited 07 November 2001).]

[This message has been edited by Little_Marc (edited 12 November 2001).]

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Deathscythe
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posted 04 November 2001 22:47     Click Here to See the Profile for Deathscythe   Click Here to Email Deathscythe        Reply w/Quote   Visit Deathscythe's Homepage!
maybe it does not so bad as that?!!

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Dr Slue
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posted 05 November 2001 01:47     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
I couldnt find the page. I got cannot find page error thingy. Can anyone else connect to it? If so or if you saved the page, could someone post it here?

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l@st 1
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posted 05 November 2001 08:09     Click Here to See the Profile for l@st 1   Click Here to Email l@st 1        Reply w/Quote   
I would love to read that, but got the same thing. I'll post it up here if I get it. I'm going to keep trying as I want to see it.

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Dr Slue
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posted 06 November 2001 01:18     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
wow. there must be like 50 people here from perth.lol.weird i tell you.WEIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!

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SneakyRaven
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posted 16 November 2001 21:19     Click Here to See the Profile for SneakyRaven   Click Here to Email SneakyRaven        Reply w/Quote   Visit SneakyRaven's Homepage!
i hate blizz with a passion... thats it i am selling my bnet acc =P

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whoamI
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posted 17 November 2001 14:22     Click Here to See the Profile for whoamI        Reply w/Quote   
Anyone noticed the D2Hack00015 or something in their D2 folder? The # at the end is the date cause I have one that was 00016 also. Inside it says stuff like "char name: item has skill that should not have skill." I did use an editor to. These files appeared after I updated to 1.09c. I unchecked the rape option they gave. YEAH RIGHT, no way in hell I would willfully let those guys get info off my pc.

I think they are monitoring who uses h a c ks with that patch, not what type of systems players are using. A poll would be sufficient for that. Sneaky punks......

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Incandescent One
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posted 18 November 2001 00:44     Click Here to See the Profile for Incandescent One   Click Here to Email Incandescent One        Reply w/Quote   Visit Incandescent One's Homepage!
I just hope its not gonna contribute even more to the amount of lag that the europe server seems to generate! I'm still waiting for them to update bnet with the more accurate message of "<playername> was killed by lag" it gets soooooo frustrating when you're in worldstone lvls & baal starts casting poison & lightning on you 'cos the game has decided you're standing still! ah well, maybe in a few more patches!!

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posted 19 November 2001 08:20     Click Here to See the Profile for ZaN_Li        Reply w/Quote   Visit ZaN_Li's Homepage!
Sometime ago BLIZZARD where hacked by some guys using unix and the battle.net and blizzard.com where down for at least 12 hours and it was rumors on megagames.com that they had been hacked just because of that they scan your computer for hacks and cheated chars. The rumor was also something about that it scanned all of your comp and deleted all duplicate chars and so on.... I don´t now if it was true but.. i think it is they want to controll YOU, but at the same time it´s a good thing right? You don´t want to play with cheaters or do you?

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Incandescent One
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posted 04 December 2001 13:31     Click Here to See the Profile for Incandescent One   Click Here to Email Incandescent One        Reply w/Quote   Visit Incandescent One's Homepage!
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Originally posted by iowan:
if they ban everybody from open that uses a editor , there will be nobody left on open , or almost no-one


It's really starting to get on my nerves now, i've never used a character editor, i keep getting D2HACK<date> files appearing in my diablo2 directory. Fair enuf, my single player games are modded so i can understand it picking up on certain changes, but when i'm using a clean patch_d2.mpq before logging into bnet?
I'd always been proud of my lvl 70+ characters in bnet, cos some people still don't believe you can get that far without cheating/editing, and by being on bnet you're basically proving to them that you did it on your own. Now i'm just getting paranoid about what the game could be up to in the background while i'm munching my way thru worldstone

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NefariusDX
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posted 09 December 2001 16:13     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
Blizzard was spying since v1.03... it just came public when they changed their ToS they used semi spyware in other games like starcraft. but i dont think they will do any thing if they will ban every one that cheats they will loose alot of costumers. they use these to detect the people who create editors etc to stop these people regular players shouldent worry and if its the spyware ppl are so scared about then get adaware (one of the best spyware removal progs ever and its free) and scan your system and you wont belive how much spyware you have on your pc (i know i was) also if you use msn messager or msie 6 you got a nice deal of spyware on your pcs too which cannot be detected (but it connects to the web check with a firewall) of their LoadQM (Quality monitor) file so final words are i dont think that the spyware on d2 is a bigdeal with 50% of all comercial software and games have some kind of semi tracking device on it.

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FoxBat
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posted 09 December 2001 17:30     Click Here to See the Profile for FoxBat   Click Here to Email FoxBat        Reply w/Quote   
Actually Blizzard could really give a damn. That "D2Hack" info isn't sent to their servers, and they wouldn't care to read it anyway, they don't even have enough people on D2 anymore to worry about it. I'm suprised we're still getting cheat bug-fixes.

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xXSoul_SlayerXx
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posted 14 December 2001 19:42     Click Here to See the Profile for xXSoul_SlayerXx        Reply w/Quote   Visit xXSoul_SlayerXx's Homepage!
I dont really like people who cheat either. And I hate to break all of your hearts, but, mods and editing should be left to single player only. If you don't want your char to be hacked than play on closed bnet.

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NefariusDX
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posted 14 December 2001 20:55     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
you can get hacked on closed as well (not only tradehacks etc but since im not gonna talk about stuff like this on this forum)

blizzard could stop cheating with easy but the fact is they dont care for real, they care (like any other software company) for money, now if they would make cheating on open imposible then alot of ppl (like 70% of the total) would be ****ed off which means they might not buy future games which again means less money, there would be so easy ways to stop it, like dropping that silly hp limit of 8388607 to like 10000, and many more but instead they made modding unique stats(the added reasonless limits) to protect legit players from 8mill pks. impossible

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