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Effective custom anticheat by RU177 server admins
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Description

Admins of RU177 server got tired of cheaters and created their own anticheat. They use SetWindowsHookEx() to track down simple cheats, which can be easily made using publicly available cheat guides (e.g. at http://www.unknowncheats.me). But here is the main problem. Such hand-made cheats cannot be tracked by BattlEye and cheaters do not receive global bans until such cheat gets into BE database. But SetWindowsHookEx() is useless agains cheats without main window, such as most of the paid cheats. That's where they effectively used CreateRemoteThread() to load library. They can track almost all known and unknown paid cheats now. The only cheat that is undetectable by this method is the one that CFFTeam creates.

The admins asked me to inform you about it and give your official reply to them, because present BE anticheat is not that effective and cheaters destroy the community. Admins of RU177 are afraid that they will get banned for using those methods to prevent cheating on their servers.

Hoping for your understanding.
Weiting for your reply.

Details

Legacy ID
625514243
Severity
None
Resolution
No Bug
Reproducibility
N/A
Category
Multiplayer

Event Timeline

Bohemia set Category to Multiplayer.Feb 17 2015, 9:42 AM
Bohemia set Reproducibility to N/A.
Bohemia set Severity to None.
Bohemia set Resolution to No Bug.
Bohemia set Legacy ID to 625514243.May 8 2016, 9:31 PM
Bohemia edited a custom field.
Bohemia added a subscriber: Bohemia.

Why would you suspend their server. If you told them to not use the launcher and give it to you, they would do it. No need to shut them down. They just trusted this info and voluntarily gave you info about their invention. They didn't do any harm. You could just discuss. Why interrupting their activity.

They wanted to share it to improve anticheat, to make community better, to more effectively track cheaters...

And that's what we end up. Server's shut down. The admins that trusted me to contact you are now in despair.

This is wrong.

Admins contacted BattlEye with the same information and BattlEye responded and told that this will not be a reason for ban, this is not illegal. Admins were afraid that their server might get banned or turned off, so they contacted you to discuss in depth.

You might just have asked without shutting it down.

Alex, the admin, was and is ready to give you the tools. Now it seems the provider is asking him to send him his software so that he will send it to you.

I'm in contact with Alex, I made this report on his behalf because I knwo English better and this matter is sensitive to risk misunderstanding.

If you need the launcher, I'll attach it here. If you need source code - Alex will send it to you privately.

There was no need to shut the server down :( There tons of other rule violating servers that need to be shut down for puding, loot selling etc.

I apologize for my emotions above. I shoudln't have judged your actions and do those accusative suggestions. The situation evolved unexpectedly and I just failed to contain myself. Glad it's not public and you can undesrtand me.

I realize now even the good intention behind their launcher cannot exclude the fact that it's a hack too and must not be approved officially.

I know you work hard and do your best. You schedule is set with priorities. We all take risks with this early access. Sorry for diverting your attention from more important things.

I hope the issues with cheaters will get resolved one day and server admins eventually will be fine and we won't get into such situations.

No problem at all :) As mentioned before, all your hard work and passion for DayZ and the community is much appreciated!

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