BEst way to capture and setup servers to catch hackers

[=ES= Girth]

Curious what is the best and most effective way to catch hackers. We monitor our servers religiously and have been adding new server admins to help. Last night we had jeeps dropping everywhere also banned 5 clan members from another clan just to have them remove themselves from our banlist.

 

If anyone could help out so we can get the ball rolling on this, that would be great. Thanks in advance.

 

This is a BF2 server.

 

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Edited August 20, 2006 by =ES= Girth

[Tim]

You asked for the "BEST" way correct ? STREAMING !!! :P It catches 90 percent more cheaters then PB or any admin can ;)

[kcinc0gnito]

the motto here is Quality over Quantity, you technically dont wanna " catch alot of cheaters " as that would mean there would be a rampant problem on your server with cheating..

 

The Least amount of cheaters you catch, the better players you have on your server.

 

as long as you let it be known that you are streaming all your violations and be a 'admin nazi' as some would call it, cheaters will avoid your server, some cheaters are cocky and try to cheat in spite all the power to them as they will just get caught and added to the MBI.

 

set up a task advertising via console or what not saying " all cheat related violations are added to pbbans.com master ban index " or something along those lines.

 

In MoC we had 20+ servers with a task similar to this

 

;pb_sv_task 30 3600 cp "^ePunkbuster Banlist is now ^1updated"

 

pb_sv_task 1 14400 cp "This server is Protected by PBBans [^1www.pbbans.com^d]"

 

we would have people ask what that was about and we the admin(s) would explain how we were trying to have a clean server for everyone to play on.

 

so if you want to "catch cheaters" streaming is the best way but it also requires some of your time as an admin to watch fishy players etc.

[FalcoN]

You asked for the "BEST" way correct ? STREAMING !!! :P It catches 90 percent more cheaters then PB or any admin can ;)

This doesn't count for ET. Since Pbbans doesn't ban based on IP, but on GUID. Since the guids on ET are renewable, streaming adds as much as PB :) The only exception on the statement.

 

FalcoN

[fozzer]

This doesn't count for ET. Since Pbbans doesn't ban based on IP, but on GUID. Since the guids on ET are renewable, streaming adds as much as PB :) The only exception on the statement.

 

FalcoN

and just to be ambiguous all anti cheat sites ban by guid - the guid's on ET are renewable and we all know how easy it is to change it,but, there is always a but :) , pb will only put up with so much before a hardware ban is applied,which is a bit harder for the average player to get around, the cheaters forums are full of whines about them being hardware banned and not being able to get round it, personally i would like to see hardware bans issued directly on first offender cheaters, especially in free games like ET and FEAR Combat

[FalcoN]

Well, I think more groups should be involved, thinking about hosters, ISP's and server suppliers, than you get something started. (However, this is naïve and certainly not going to happen unfortunally)

 

To get the most hackers removed, means also an active administration team, knowing where they are looking for.

 

Dunno if it has ever been suggested here, but perhaps creating 'fake' players that only bots/wallhacks recognise?

 

FalcoN