Hackers on P99

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Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Has less to do with their competency and more to do with priorities. Finding ways to ban their paying subscribers is not on the top of that list.

In fact, back in June of 2006 (or was it 2007?), one of the coders on EQLive put a system into the client to track calls to certain functions that were also hooked into by macroquest. By incrementing a variable once right before every call to that function, and also incrementing a second variable inside of that function, and comparing those variables, one could tell if those variables ever differed that an external hook was in place. This then triggered the client to send a special packet to the server which flagged your account (but didn't take any action) for third party programs.

Due to the overwhelming number of accounts that were flagged by this, SOE decided not to take any action against the flagged accounts.

Damn man, this is some epic insight. I never played back when that went down but it makes sense. This client just has the two CRCs sent at worldserver login, which is how you validate that people have proper spell files?