The truth about EasyMap, Blizzard and banned accounts

[Cauhtemoc]

Quote by Richie, administrator and hack security guy at RPGForums.com:

Stop to think for a second. How many people lost accounts ALL OF A SUDDEN. Lots? Ok, now think, how much time does it take to sort through a keylog, find psaswords/account (btw, accounts don't show up in keylogs if they're not typed, ever think of that?), figure out which realm they're on, and change their psaswords one account at a time?

Being a former evil guy, I can say that sorting through a log takes at least 3 minutes, maybe less once you know what you're looking for. Checking for the realm will take about 20 seconds to switch between each. Changing the password will take about 10-30 seconds, depending on how fast battle.net responds. That's around 4 minutes per account.

Hundreds or possibly THOUSANDS of accounts lost in a few hours...and you think netter is capable of doing that by himself, or even with 10 friends, in a matter of hours? 4 minutes times 10,000 accounts (approximated based off nothing :p) is about 666 hours. Seem plausible to you?

There were no keyloggers or trojans, just blizzard catching the users and banning them. Don't blame netter, blame blizzard, and blame ourselves for not remembering the way the old hacks used to work: use at your own risk.

...and a quote by me, spare time reverse engineer and also a member of RPGForums.com:

Time for yet another of my little statements I think.

Diablo and the Battle.net server communicates with eachother by the use of so called 'packets'. A maphack is a small program that resides in Diablo's memory, which reads all incoming packets from the Battle.net server, modifying or otherwise changing the packets that has to do with the automap (this is client side only by the way), which in terms tricks Diablo into showing the entire map.

With the arrival of the new patch, Blizzard compeletely changed or otherwise modified practically every memory address there is, and as such, all older hacks stopped working.

Updating all the memory offsets and such is not only a shed load of work, but requires equally as much knowledge about assembly, the Windows API, as well as being a very skilled reverse engineer (and it's safe to say that there aren't too many of these people around in the Diablo community anymore).

On top of this, when Blizzard said they were upgrading the anti-hack detection in Diablo, they sure as hell weren't kidding. I knew this, as did Netter, and he did what he thought was enough, but it obviously wasn't. We knew that Blizzard's new anti-detection system was good, just not this good. My respect for Blizzard has now increased tenfold.

It will take time to get around this detection. I'd be surprised if we see any truly undetectable maphacks for the next few weeks. Our hopes now lie with Mousepad.

[Nubli]

This all makes very clear sense. But whats going around in the game right now and all over many forums is that Blizzard took more part in this than just simply updating their Hack-Detection database. For the time being we don't know the full story, it could be anything. But it comes down to Richie's last line: "use at your own risk."

[Silent_killers]

Thanks mate.

And yes, our hopes lie with Mousepad.

[RoH-haMMerDin]

can i get back acc ?

[Dynafrom]

All I can say is OWNED. Good thing 45% of people are quitting because then I can get to top of ladder faster

[Exh-shadow]

All I can say is OWNED. Good thing 45% of people are quitting because then I can get to top of ladder faster

Lol, I agree. But the sad thing is the ppl who were my friends are one of the 45% .:confused:

[Slangin-Heat]

Hey i was just thinking i wonder. i would think blizzard would have something to say about jan stealing a bunch of accts and getting caught and someone proved he did it. now my question is and im not flaming just something i was thinking about. i wonder if blizz contacted him and had him post the mh and get people banned jsut cause he did what he did. people did say he wanted his good name back and maybe he was workin with blizzard just to stay out of trouble i mean all items are bizzards and he did steal a bunch of them. And yes i got banned and i read the part where it said use at ur own risk and im not *****in about being banned its about time this game ended anyway.



any thoughts?

sorry for any bad grammer



Tim

[GambleBlade]

will they unban the accounts? i just want my ****ing account back, the cd-key can stay banned for all i care, i can just buy another

[Qotfsa87]

How do they detect and ban me for mh when im not even on? i Couldve understood if i were banned WHEN i was using mh but the fact that i used it a few times then deleted it after the backdoor scare and they still banned me just makes me angry. SCREW B-NET!!!

[volcom]

will they unban the accounts? i just want my ****ing account back, the cd-key can stay banned for all i care, i can just buy another

its irreversible damage buddy. blizzard/b.net show no sympathy for hacking/cheating ppl. Soon for the ppl who bot, they will get cosed/banned as well.

[DownholeTool]

Skidude mentioned the bot thats supposed to be released next week sometime. I doubt after this wide spread banning that anyone is going to be ballsy enough to try it. Kudos to the ones that do, but chances are they are going to be here and saying the same thing, I lost my account. I think that waiting a few months until they are satisfied with the people they have caught. We'll see though.

[pt14]

i used easymap the day it came out for like 20 minutes then i saw the whole keylogging scare so i delted at changd my pw and i didnt get caught but other ppl who did use it didnt get caught and im wondering why oh and btw to the people who used it, did you check off the lil debug box?

[b33asy]

Ummmm, you DIDNT get caught? Or you did.... Cus if you did, you cant get mad because you DID use it for 20 mins. And maybe ur friends didnt have it on their comps right as Blizz was scannin?

[Slangin-Heat]

i used for 2 days on main acct ... then i used for like a day on my other acct and it got closed (8) and my main acct and my mule acct didn;t get banned but my cd-key did (good thing my friend had another cd-key laying around) my main acct and mule acct are still there nothing bothered Im so happy... Did i jsut get lucky?




Tim

[xShrimp]

this is odd because my password was changed, and i can't get it back for some reason because bnet of send it to me, but my cd key still works fine, which saved me about 50cad, but wasted about months and months of addiction time. now, i got nothing to do, planning to start d2 again later in ladder with some friends and hope the mousepad can do better then that ****** Netter.

[Koolaid_dude]

i used easymap the day it came out for like 20 minutes then i saw the whole keylogging scare so i delted at changd my pw and i didnt get caught but other ppl who did use it didnt get caught and im wondering why oh and btw to the people who used it, did you check off the lil debug box?

was there a point to the debug box?, ne way, i got lucky, no ban for me, at least so far

[Cliffy123]

i don't understand why blizzard would care... they knew people were hacking plus the game isn't nearly as fun without hacks. I mean whats the big deal things were fine just let them be. I guess i don't care too much ill just play warcraft 3 but my respect for blizzard just got lowered.

[diabl0kid13]

i used easymap the day it came out for like 20 minutes then i saw the whole keylogging scare so i delted at changd my pw and i didnt get caught but other ppl who did use it didnt get caught and im wondering why oh and btw to the people who used it, did you check off the lil debug box?

No i didnt.


...... :confused:
**** netter:mad:

[Bloodangel26]

NO MORE TALK ABOUT THIS CR4P!!! please

[Exh-shadow]

We all know easymap was (no antidetection" and rumors Netter was behind it ive seen mods say no more talking about easymap, its been discussed leave it alone >_<.......................Please?