[Bug 9685] Punkbuster removes me from game for UNKNOWN WINDOWS API FUNCTION [131124]

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9685





--- Comment #128 from Fernando Otero <granamachine-wa at yahoo.com.ar>  2008-06-26 16:16:19 ---
(In reply to comment #127)
> The patches make PunkBuster services/kernel driver *functionally* working, e.g.
> no service load/startup failure, no crash due to missing APIs, no unexpected
> API data...
> 
> The kicks due to mismatching API signatures can't be worked around with simple
> patches.
> The legal and technical issues have already been discussed several times.
> 
> To counter the API fingerprinting you have to attack/hack the PB client itself
> - which ironically contradicts the purpose of PB.
> Although EB did shut down a number of attack vectors over several years, there
> are still some left which allow to alter all the information gathered by the
> client before being sent to server.
> Though that requires a certain level of understanding how the client internally
> works.
> My private just-for-fun stuff which directly targets the client still works
> without being detected (dating from early days of PB).
> If correctly done, it enables all known detected cheats/hacks to run
> undetected.
Hi again
So, if I understand correctly, in order to play without being kicked you need
these patches AND your "private just-for-fun stuff". Am I right?


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