Relentless

Alright, we're having an issue on one of our regulars on whether he is evading a PB ban or not... He is banned right now because we caught him with the same IP of a known hacker. However, both have dynamic IPs, and the hacker was caught two years ago (2006). http://www.pbbans.com/mbi-viewban-56d22e5e-vb15677.html is the link to the original ban. ---Our Regular--- This is the GUID (from our logs) of LOR: 61121c35c858d367693f42ffb533a6b7 (It is clean) We caught him using the IP: 83.221.80.247 And these are the other IPs you have on file for him. [Germany] 83.221.80.63 [Germany] 217.68.173.196 [Germany] 217.68.173.242 So, in conclusion, is LOR (the regular) considered to be a hacker and therefore ban evading as he shared an ip in common with a known hacker, or is this simply an odd coincidence where two guys have the same ISP and one of them was caught cheating?

120115 is the error message, disallowed driver.

Well, over the past day we've noticed numerous kicks from PB towards numerous players (over 100 different players), for 2-3 reasons. http://bunker.aaxxss.com/forums/index.php?...mp;#entry216377 http://bunker.aaxxss.com/forums/index.php?...mp;#entry216386 Now, I've been playing ET for years, never had a problem. In fast, I was on ET for 4-5 hours not even 24 hours ago, again no problem. I try to play today, same server, nothing changed at all (pc wasn't even on between times), and I'm kicked ever 2 minutes... I believe it is restricted driver 11025 (could 110125)... I switch between an nvidia 7600 and an nvidia 8900, depending upon which PC I'm on... Same problems for both. I also know people who, with teh same driver, have no problems, and others who have problems with ATI drivers...

I'm just wondering, as the program I guess can run on ALL Quake3 based games.

We run an older version of ETPub, largely because the newer versions will cause MAX_GAMESTATE_CHARS more often (64 players). Any chance there will be a PB update that will help fight this?

We have subnet bans on the, but they just avoid them. If we make them any bigger we lose some Regulars and Members. Yes, we do own our own servers and host them at locations such as Server Beach, etc... Problem is there, if we make the firewalls to block them, we wind up blocking Regulars/Members.

Its for W:ET. What happens (as far as we can tell) is that someone connects with no GUID and begins to generate a lot of 'false' or 'bot' players. Each 'bot' has their hunkmegs cranked up all the way to try and crash the server. Also, we believe that they might be running RCON Brute Force hacking, but are not positive.

64.34.183.34:27960 Its streaming to PB. This is a screenshot we have of it. It's happened numerous other times in the past week as well.

Just wondering if there's any defense against this? We've been attacked a number of times (10+) over the past week.

My only question is... Is X-Ray compatible WITH PB? If you can run both at the same time, why not do it? Thats my only question concerning it.

I think he's talking about a Shrubbot form of adminning (W:ET). Where you can give out levels to players by a command and each level has some corresponding commands on it... Is that what you mean?

Thats what I thought. Just wanted to be sure.

Well, he's saying that he talks to PB and EB, and that they are going to start 'banning' servers and clans for running it... I'm 99.9% certain that he's just blowing smoke, but still, just want to be safe.

Well, I have a question here for any PB Admin... The other day I was asking around on the CoD4 forums (oscardelta...), about how the servers are adminned, and mentioned shrubbot. One of the people there replied, and I quote: - Sorry dude, its just BS and those servers and admins should be perma-banned! - Matter of fact, now that I'm thinking about it. Report these scripts to PB! They never really considered scanning a server it's self, 'bout time they do! - Oh I dont speak for Punk Buster, I speak to them. And report cheating little admins such as yourself and Bunker whoever? bunker is? BTW, been around FPS a very very long time Dont matter what you have done for them in the past, a cheat is a cheat is a cheat! And admins who cheat are an even lower form of life than the aimbotters running around! Another PUNK BUSTED, via self admission! So, my question is (I guess you can call it that), what is Punk Buster's OFFICIAL stance on Shrubbot. Shrubbot is the most basic admin_mod on ETPub, NQ, and Jaymod servers. For a quick refresher, it is the !kick, !warn, !ban, !listplayers, etc... commands.

We don't stream a message saying it, however when you connect you do get the whole message list from PB checking your settings. Besides, just about everyone knows that we stream to PB, and if a cheater doesn't see that then he'll get caught and banned. We almost always have a RCON user online (either in game or on msn), so anytime a suspected hacker is on we just demo and SS them, and if they are cheating its time for the ban-hammer.