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If you got wrongly banned for it I doubt you would share that view. Too many people think everyone needs to be punished when the better solution is to prevent a cheat from working in the first place. The reason we lifted the bans was non cheat AHK applications / scripts caused the violation. It's used for other things besides macros to cheat in video games. Right now PB kicks them for using it so they are not getting away with anything, they just can't use it anymore.

We have lifted all BF3 bans for violation #89246 and #89296 because they are raised for actively using AutoHotKey. Since many players have been banned for simply using that application we have decided it is better to let some cheaters go free than to ban many innocent players. Please be reminded that these PunkBuster violations are still active at the time of this post. Players are advised not to use AutoHotKey when playing on PB enabled servers. 236 Battlefield 3 Bans have been removed from the MBi and those violations have been placed on the Hub ignore list. 197 for #89246, 25 for #89296 and 14 for #89229 Update: http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-bf3.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYOFLqItuW4 I watched his entire DICE 2012 presentation last night and found it very very interesting. http://www.gamespot.com/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/videos/skyrim-todd-howard-dice-2012-keynote-6350048/

Even Balance has dropped support for Wolfenstein. The Wolfenstein section on the EB website has been removed. Streaming support has been discontinued. http://www.pbbans.com/forums/files/wolfenstein-windows-file75.html

Even Balance has dropped support for Quake 4. The Quake 4 section on the EB website has been removed. Streaming support will continue for the time being. http://www.pbbans.com/forums/files/quake-4-windows-file74.html http://www.pbbans.com/forums/files/quake-4-linux-file73.html

Even Balance has dropped support for Soldier of Fortune II. The Soldier of Fortune II section on the EB website has been removed. Streaming support will continue for the time being. http://www.pbbans.com/forums/files/soldier-of-fortune-ii-windows-file77.html http://www.pbbans.com/forums/files/soldier-of-fortune-ii-linux-file76.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU4oAKZE1VI I must admit steam workshop looks awesome for a modder. Wish FPS games did the same these days. Would make life soo much easier. http://steamcommunity.com/workshop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG-L2O6sN_4 http://www.neowin.net/news/online-fps-sets-guinness-world-record-with-999-simultaneous-players

Also want to point out that the mass number of PnkBstrB.exe restriction kicks recently in Battlefield 3 is completely unrelated to the events listed above. It seems a growing number of players are confusing the fake ban events with the mass restriction kicks for PnkBstrB.exe which is not the case. PunkBuster was updated a few days ago and is likely the cause of those RESTRICTION kicks. There is a server command that will stop players from being kicked for that restriction (pb_sv_restrictions 0) but a server admin has to enter it. I've sent that command to all the streaming servers at PBBans so players won't be kicked for now. A list of some BF3 servers with bookmark links can be found at. http://www.pbbans.com/files/msi/bf3_server_list.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guEkrrfDpZI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUorgwa6YWM

After the recent fake ban events at GGC-Stream this week it's no secret that streaming is not completely secure. It has never been completely secure and the events of 2008 brought that to light. At which time we informed our streaming admins about the situation and possible solutions. The solution was to either close down for good or continue and tighten our security. Streaming admins wanted to continue so that was our decision. The known fake bans exploit involves using an application to hook into a server and edit its memory to falsify PB logs streamed to a 3rd party. In order for that to happen the person must have full access to the server. In the case of Battlefield 3 the leaked server files could be used to achieve that goal. The mass fake ban attack in 2008 was a wakeup call for us and we took it very seriously. That is the reason we have the high streaming requirements of requiring teams to have a working website, roster, forums showing activity to name a few. The rest of those requirements can be found here. It's why we: - manually approve all newly added servers to stream - manually approve all newly added users to existing streaming accounts - don't allow free online email accounts for streaming applicants. - don't allow home servers to stream - don't allow teams with cheaters to stream - don't allow any server whose IP is found in the MPi (used by a player) to stream - don't allow cracked servers to stream - don't show the full 32 character GUID for clean players. We also provide many details for all our bans to aid players in the appeal process should they wish to do so. That includes the server log entry of the violation raised, the server ip and group it belongs to, the guid, alias and IP address of the player. Should any player end up on our banlist they always have the option to appeal. We treat ban appeals very seriously at PBBans. For example if a ban was the result of a PB raised violation from Even Balance (Violation #50000+) then we have the user submit a ticket to Even Balance. If they say it's a false positive or there is no record of a person with that violation (can be caused by network errors) then we lift the ban. For MD5 tool bans if we do not have the exact cheat file (using MD5 checksum) in our database we lift the ban. Better to let a cheater go free than to keep an innocent player banned. Streaming was never a 100% secure system and technically any system where logs are sent to a remote location could also suffer the same problem. We knew the problem existed in 2008 and took the above steps (plus others) to help protect server admins and players from being exploited.

I just installed PlayClaw 3.0 and man it's NICE!!! http://blog.playclaw.com/2011/12/video-capture-settings/ http://blog.playclaw.com/2011/12/audio-capture-settings/ http://blog.playclaw.com/2011/12/lets-start-with-playclaw-configuration/ http://blog.playclaw.com/2011/12/overlays-configuration/

Some users may have noticed they no longer get notified of topics they follow on our forums since the last upgrade. It's actually a notification setting that needs to be enabled. You can edit them by visiting the following link: http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=core&area=notifications These are needed to see notifications for followed topics and forum: Also if you want a pop up window to show when you have new private messages put a check box in the following: There are many more settings you can adjust as well.

Try now. I've sent your GUID out in an unban command so you should be able to join streaming servers.

http://www.neowin.net/news/anonymous-takes-down-doj-website-in-response-to-megaupload-news

.931 is the current version. There will be a new patch tomorrow.

Are you sure it's the right ip and port? If so try using another web browser. Doesn't seem to work in firefox 9 for me right now but ti does in internet explorer 9. Also when you see this box press Run. If you press cancel it will give the error message you are getting.

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=announce.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAP4E3A1h1A PC version is coming as well.