activate all games?
ah well, I've decided to take a little more active roll 'n start emailing the ISPs/Hosting companies/registrars about the specific files they're hosting. Not guarunteed that they'll actually do anything, but since I'm also sending a copy to a valve rep they should eventually get taken down =)
- Bruce "Bahamut" Andrews
Peter Kirby wrote:
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:28:31 +1000, Bruce Bahamut Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's not new, and there's been some word to people who bothered to email them, they're monitoring our nice little conversations on these lists and hopefully are working on a solution though my email to them has not yet been answered.
The solution to ban newer ID's is pretty dodgy, as anyone buying HL2 on a new account would most likely end up banned, even though I was the one who devised that solution. Currently, banning IP addresses is the ONLY way to get rid of the hackers for over 2 minutes. Hopefully this will change soon, but we'll have to wait and see.
Just so you know, servers all over Australia are being hit, generally the larger GSP's are getting hit a lot more, though HLSW allows you to ban IP addresses relatively fast if you notice a myg0t or JAP5 tag =)
Bruce "Bahamut" Andrews.
Indeed it is not new. However I think there are a lot more instances of this now because there is now a program around I believe which will 'activate' an account with all games (intended to let people get HL2 for free I am sure but giving the side effect of cheats getting an infinate number of accounts to cheat from)
Yeah I had someone who was coming back every 3 minutes with a new ID the other night. IP ban was the only way to stop. But in the world of dynamic IPs it is of course only a temporary solution.
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