Monday, July 26, 2010

Part 4: The San Paro Saint Says: Cheating is Dangerous



One thing that gamers turned cheaters often fail to understand is how these cheats work and the type of people they are buying their cheats from. The individuals selling these cheats are akin to the drug dealers of the internet gaming community. They are programming hacks that inject themselves directly into the processes and ram allocations running in your computer. This is EXACTLY the same thing that viruses do.
The hack/cheat salespersons are programming a stable virus for your game. If they can program this for the game, they are likely capable of programing worms and trojans designed to prowl your system for personal data for them to steal and sell. Not only did you just give these people your name, address, and credit card, but you gave them access to your computer and home network. What do you keep on your machine?
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Many of these hacks kick off anti-virus and firewall warnings; there is a reason for that. All of these hack sites tell you to just disable the antivirus or ignore the warnings. Wow, doesn't that sound off to you?
Now, I'll admit that some sites I collect information on do not have virus warnings in their programs, which really leads me to believe that some are shady hacks collecting your computer info and some are legit cheats. If there can be such a thing.
Bottom line: Don't cheat, winning in a video game isn't worth the risk.

4 comments:

  1. OMG dude how old are you ? read a book or two..

    the false positive is due to the code (hack) beeing wrapped aka protected so stupid fucks (PB and VAC employees,...) who try to decode the hacks to find out on what string to ban can't find it that easy. research before making posts in your fag blog

    PS Still find it fucking funny (12y kid who got owned tries to fight hackers)

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  2. Just because they protect their program from anti-cheat companies doesn't mean there may not be dangerous code in the program. I'm not saying there is, just that it's a possibility.

    I applaud this blog's effort to do something about the 'hacker situation.' It does ruin many online games. Darkfall Online had a major issue with DAMNCheaters in the beginning, and what made it worse was the natural competitive nature of the game. I saw some video of people deleting whole towns in Mortal Online. APB is suffering from these scumbags/kiddies(IMO) also. I hope RTW comes up with some more anti-cheat checks soon.

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  3. There is a good reason to have a firewall & other pc protection. Even if these coders aren't creating hacks they are encouraging you to open the gateways for others. If they are willing to cheat just to win a game they are probably going to get what the deserve in the end with a big fat malware or virus.

    As always enjoyed reading the blog. Ignore the aimbotting haters.

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