March 25, 2008

We rarely announce anything regarding commercial cheats and hacks. However, we are aware of the numerous "You Tube" type videos and posts on various sites where hackers who sell cheats make claims that are false but sound believable about PunkBuster and hack detection status. We receive numerous emails daily by concerned honest players regarding advertisements for undetectable hacks, etc. The truth is that via recent enhancements to PunkBuster's detection capabilities, we have cracked down hard on cheaters who pay for hacks in the games we support. Some commercial cheat sites have closed down due to our new methods and others have private forums where punks routinely complain about getting caught with the "undetectable" hacks, demanding refunds, etc. We have always maintained a strict policy of not giving money to punks, but thanks to community volunteer moles who have helped us obtain access to private hacks via donations of their time, etc., PunkBuster has been catching hacks from virtually all commercial cheat sites in recent weeks and months.

One of the recent enhancements involves our memory scanner which aggressively scans for patterns included in known cheats (public and private). A commercial hack site where we have had recent success catching their subscribers has recently staged a few demonstrations of inserting text-based patterns via certain chat-related systems such as IRC, Instant Messaging, etc. directly into the memory of computers. These are specific text patterns that we have deployed in some supported games in the recent past. It is clear that many of the demonstrators are cheat-supporters willingly participating in the demonstration, but there is evidence that some innocent players had PunkBuster violations triggered during the past few days by the hackers who sent specific text patterns into the chat programs that were open during gameplay. We are removing these text based patterns from our system and encourage admins to not ban for PB violations that occurred during the past few days.

Online gamers who play with other programs running should always enable security features in their messaging and chat programs to deny auto-download of files and only accept downloads from people they know and trust. As always, from PunkBuster's standpoint, if a known cheat pattern is in the memory of the computer during gameplay, then a violation will be triggered. We have always suggested closing other programs while you are playing multiplayer games on PunkBuster servers and that remains the safest policy. Leagues that require chat room usage for competitive play should take steps to ensure that only league participants have access and suspicious activity should be reported to us when there are concerns about manipulating the system.

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PunksBusted.com The internet's largest anti-cheat and most popular, Punk Buster© support web site, has officially gone live with the new Auto-Master Ban List System (Auto-MBL), for game server administrators. This is a fully automated, secure, real time spooling of the Punk Buster logs directly from your server to the master database. It stops cheaters in their tracks across a large number of game servers.

What Does this mean?

* Cheaters detected by the Punk Buster software from our admin member servers, are collected, sorted and updated to the Master Ban List (MBL) automatically.
* Your server's ban list is automatically updated and kept current with our automated download feature at a time and period of your choosing. A cheater caught today will not be playing within hours on all servers using the MBL, Period!
* The Auto-MBL FTP updating software is available for both Windows and Linux-based servers. (Or update manually, if the auto-updating feature is not possible with your setup).
* Screen shot MD5 checksums and timestamps are automatically stored in our repository, so that there will never again be a doubt as to the authenticity of a PB screen shot. It eliminates accusations of fake screen shots. PunksBusted's repository will verify it's integrity without question.

Any admin is free to manually retrieve the MBL from the PunksBusted web site. All server admins and leagues are encouraged to use the MBL, whether they are contributing members or not.

Please take some time to read more about this major step forward and explore the PunksBusted web site. Note the assistance we offer to admins to keep their servers running smoothly with Punk Buster and as cheat free as possible.

Em Portugal os testes serão realizados no ERP - Edifício de Recuperação Psicossomática - sito na Avenida do Brasil em Lisboa.

Os testes terão vários niveis de dificuldade conforme os jogadores estejam integrados em jogos mais ou menos realistas. Se para os jogadores de CS:Source cerca de 1 hora bastará para fazer o teste, já um jogador de Forgotten Hope 2 terá de passar 2 dias no ERP em regime de meia pensão.

No [K]arma Clan of Games os membros das Divisões de CS1.6, CS:S, CoD2, CoD4, Battlefield 2 e Battlefield 2142 irão fazer os testes no próximo dia 1 de Maio de 2008 a partir das 08h00.

Realizou-se este Domingo(30 de Março) a 1ª prova do conceituado campeonato The Original LFS League, tendo sido disputada esta prova com os famosos carros LX6(Caterham) na difícil pista citadina South City Town Course.

Tendo 133 pilotos feito as qualificações ao longo da semana estes foram divididos por várias pool's de 20 jogadores, que foram correndo ao longo do dia.

A equipa [K]arma Clan of Games apresentou-se com 10 pilotos para esta corrida, tendo assim batido um record interno de participação em uma so prova.

As corridas realizaram-se todas com um óptimo fair-play de todos os pilotos, e no geral a equipa [K]arma Clan of Games saiu satisfeita com a prestação dos pilotos, dos quais a maior parte acabou a corrida.

O próximo evento deste campeonato será no dia 13 de Abril, corrida disputada na pista South City Chicane Route, na qual os pilotos poderão optar por um de 3 carros (RB4 ou FXO ou XRT).