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As @@TecHnOBoY has said, we are talking about DNS records not browsing history they are totally different. How is a program supposed to look to see if you have a hack related program installed if they cannot look at all the programs installed? Take the following code for example, this will loop through all of the programs that you would see in the control panel. If you are looking for a 'hack' you may do similar. string registry_key = @"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall"; using(Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey key = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(registry_key)) { foreach(string subkey_name in key.GetSubKeyNames()) { using(RegistryKey subkey = key.OpenSubKey(subkey_name)) { Console.WriteLine(subkey.GetValue("DisplayName")); //This is where you would be checking for a hack program. But to get here you have to retrieve all of the installed programs. } } } Ok for the more code savvy you could say that you could have an object array of all the known hack programs and then do an individual call into the registry for each, but that would just stall the host computer. This concept is the same for most things that anti-cheat programs do, when they go into your RAM they are most likely searching all of it for set patterns - they will focus on memory areas that are linked to graphics, DirectX and the games more than other parts but that doesn't mean that they won't at some point read it all. So really there is no way to do it like you say without it making the anti-cheat program useless. If an anti-cheat program was set to look in specific areas and forced to use bad programming techniques to do it, well some may be happy that their privacy is intact but there would be more hackers due to its inefficiency and the anti-cheat program would stall more often. My two pennies.

That's the point of hacks though... they are external programs outside of the game.. (not all hacks).

Again, I will point out that your privacy is NOT being violated. You are actively going out and purchasing a game where it is made known that an anti-cheat program will be operational. It is a condition of most games that you have to run an anti-cheat to access the multiplayer part.

When we had the issues a few days ago I had to setup a TS server on the dedicated server - was literally a few clicks, add some stuff to the firewall and it was up. That's as far as you need to go if it's private as the basics are there for you. Permissions are a bit of the bitch until you understand them lol.

I would imagine that they would have a scoring system that weights accessed URL's and if the score hits a limit then the ban is placed. There are no details posted of how Valve is using the DNS information and therefore I wouldn't think to much of it. As for the invasion of privacy comment. That's the point of anti-cheats - they expressly say that they will be scanning aspects of your computer, that is how they are able to detect hacks.

I'm a student.

For members in the US, you don't need to worry - as long as the server stays in the US you will have a good ping. For non-US members you also shouldn't need to worry as we have several servers already hosted in this Datacenter and have had no problems with connectivity. For members in Australia - theres a spider under your mouse mat. The move has nothing to do with being fair and there is nothing fair in what ping you have. Ping is just a pure fact method of determining the time it takes for packets to ping to a server from your location.

lol this is the full circle, the reason people have been trying to get the maps from the maps&mods site is because the redirect was down - in the time it's taken them to get registered and start looking for the mas on there the redirect is now back up

The redirect is not locked at 13kb/s - if you are downloading at that then you are downloading from the server itself. The time frame as is as long as it takes, you may not have noticed but there have been some server issues lately. These things cannot be fixed instantly. Redirect should be operational now, if you are still having problems come back tomorrow and try again.

Should be fine now - I have re-cached the skin set.

Ideally this sort of thing should go to senior and head admins rather than the public forums. If you wish to proceed with this you should open up a PM with a senior and include your information. With complaints/comments about admins you should use a little tact and take the information to the higher powers - it is inevitable that people will jump to defend their comrades.

Or just bypass the username/password and download the files via HTTP: http://gaytech.co.uk/xi/maps/

Big red box at the top of the website.

Should all be back online now.

The direct connect is still there and should still be working, is it not working for you?

If you setup TS according to this walkthrough you will be able to connect to TS or the backup TS server if the main one goes down: http://www.xtremeidiots.com/page/teamspeak.html

I don't handle the map rotation so cannot help with that, you could download the maps from our maps&mods site however.

If you mean servers where you say 'sites' then we are suffering a DDOS attack against the Chicago servers and they will be offline for a bit.

The DDOS has also knocked our redirect offline.

The attack is aimed at the host server rather than our specific servers - the actual target is unknown. Not 'hack' per say, just disrupt them. Most attacks are handled however this one has been large enough for the datacenter to get involved which unfortunately means they are using heavy handed methods to null the attack.

If you consider a DDOS attack the server broken go ahead and think that.. Currently 4 of our servers have been knocked offline, they should be up soon however.

This may help you setup Teamspeak: http://www.xtremeidiots.com/page/teamspeak.html

I would love to go into a room like that just for the experience

I have updated the first post with some information on uploads and downloading.

Nah the same thing happened as before - database corrupted and everyone lost their permissions. Host hasn't bothered to respond to the ticket so we moved. Fuck gameservers.