Haven't had so many problems with crashing such as this, but I have had
lots
and lots of the SteamID stealing, including one my own SteamIDs. Within
2-3
weeks of this, all the SteamIDs were banned. This means that I play
competition with a SteamID that I only use for competition play and
another
SteamID for pubbing. I hope the SteamID stealing problem gets fixed. In
all
cases I have seen, the servers have been VAC2 enabled.
I wonder what the official Valve stance is on the SteamID stealing.
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 3:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [hlds] Console Crashing Hacks
i host for ghostfacekillerclan and they have had their server freeze a
couple of times out of nowhere just like you speak of
----- Original Message -----
From: "sKel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [hlds] Console Crashing Hacks
lol.. judgeing by there intro, i wouldn't doubt that its them.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:10 PM
Subject: [hlds] Console Crashing Hacks
> --
> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> I own and operate the LANFusion gaming community. We have 5 source
> servers,
> and in the past week have been experiencing many problems with the
servers
> going down. At first I thought it was something to do w/ the admin
mods,
> however, I have traced it to a group of hackers. Basically, one of
these
> guys comes into the servers, and starts using all the normal hacks
(walls,
> aim, you name it). Then, when he knows he's been bagged (or about to
be)
> he
> starts spamming text or music which tells people "Console hacks
activated,
> press console button to turn on" (or something to that point). This
gets
> people in the server to press the console button, and when they do,
their
> HL2 program freezes. This causes people in the server to time out, and
if
> enough do it, causes the server itself to have a memory read error.
>
> Now these people are tricky, because not only can they make the server
> crash, but they are using other peoples steam ids. The only way I have
> been
> able to stop them is by banning the IP address from which they
connected.
> But they just change their IP address and come right back. I searched
> through my log files for the name and IP and found that one guy had
> connected from the same IP with about 15 different STEAMIDs. When i
> searched the steamid's he had, I saw that those steamid's belonged to
> other
> people who were in the server at the time. I have no idea how he's
masking
> his actual steamid (or how he's stealing other peoples) but this is a
real
> problem.
>
> One of my admins traced one of the guys back to a group called ICT or
> 'International Coding Team' (* *www.theict.com ). I tried to register
on
> their forums but my account wouldn't activate. I'm not positive if
these
> guys are the actual culprits, however, they are apparently coming out
with
> a
> ton of hacks.
>
> Valve, are you aware of this exploit? Have any of you guys experienced
a
> similar problem on your CS:S servers? If so, do you have any
suggestions
> on
> how to get around it?
>
> Regards,
>
> Aaron Matthews
> #LANFusion | Bugs
> CEO, LANFusion LLC.
> http://www.lanfusion.com
>
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