If I were a poor high school or college student, I'd be livid. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sKel Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 4:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds] Console Crashing Hacks
yea that would kinda suck, have somone steal your steam id, and then get it bannd by vac for cheating... youd be out like 40 or 50 bucks.. man that would make me mad.. lol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Stegall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 4:20 PM Subject: RE: [hlds] Console Crashing Hacks > 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----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [xXx] con > 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 >> > >> > 69.9.36.4 (40 man, 66 tic) >> > 69.9.36.7 (32 man, 66 tic) >> > 69.9.43.180 (24 man, 100 tic) >> > 69.9.43.181 (24 man, 100 tic) >> > 69.9.43.182 (18 man, 100 tic) >> > -- >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> > please visit: >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
