Ban-wave summary
Now that the dust has settled, there doesn’t seem to be any point in delaying this any longer.
December 19th, WardenGuy sends instructions to Warden, detailing how to detect LuaNinja and WoWGremlin. At an undisclosed time, the ‘client’ activates it’s special routine which effectively disables the anti-detection in both tools (Vague, i know. Don’t want to give out too many secrets, right?).
What follows, is what seems to be the new direction in most anti-cheat software.
Warden, among other anti-cheats employ the methods of delayed banning; where by recording all of the offending users, they can maximize the effect of casualties by giving people that false sense of security.
To summarize, anyone who blames Cypher for their accounts being terminated are self-centered morons. You knew the risks of using software that infringes on the contract you signed, and even agreed to have your account terminated if found doing so.
Kernel hook would have worked. Just saying. *cough*
Certs aren’t cheap ;)
You don’t need a cert for 32-bit. And people running 64-bit can make the change to boot.ini to load unsigned drivers. Booooo!
Suppose you have a KPP bypass laying around? :p
You should pay some attention to WI, Kynox. Just a tip!
Or a WI user who’s crapping himself after the banwave, I wonder which..
So in theroy someone monitoring warden could have known that it was being detected and pushed a kill switch on there bot instead of waiting for list of people going to be banned to stack up?
Not really. The situation was more of a, “Okay, Blizzard is doing something that would detect us, but our shields are up and properly blocking warden.” And then out of no where the client jumps in, pulls down our pants and warden comes in and kicks us square in the jewels.
You have to keep in mind, once a bot is detected it stays that way until it protects itself from that detection by pulling a solid snake and hiding under a box.
indeed an unmodified client which doesn’t unintentionally disable the “hack” combined with a working logger and luaninja running would have shown the postive result send to the server earlier.
Yes, however no one was actively monitoring this.
Actually it’s likely that some of the private groups developing bots and such for the chinese farmers are watching this. Albeit, private.
I was lucky i found this whole macroing stuff after it was detected but anyways why you ppl not write a visual based program which works outside wow, and get informations visually. like make an addon which write out numbers clearly at a certain place of wow screen, and the program just get it by visually anilisys. I have some fishing tool like this:P
Thank you for revealing, I found this story whilst searching for infomation for my term report, fascinating comments and fantastic points made.
kynox can you publish some info about warden 2.0,that would be very interesting