Ban removed, but need answers.

[tyr]

So, my bot account had gotten banned for "Reason for Closure: Terms of Use Violation -- Exploitative Activity: Abuse of the Economy." - after looking up what that meant exactly, it supposedly meant that I was selling gold, which, I wasn't. I bot for my own gold and so I can have a life. . .

Anyway, I sent an appeal to Blizzard's support and they actually unbanned that account (I was shocked they did.) However, my concern is this - The Blizzard employee that replied to me quoted the Terms of Service that everyone has to agree to before playing World of Warcraft. What he quoted was: "...modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of the Game Client or the Service in any way not expressly authorized by Blizzard" - and under those terms it also says that Blizzard will be scanning your computer for 3rd party programs during your time on WoW.

So, my question is, if Blizzard is scanning for HB/GB or any other botting/hacking programs, how do we, or is it even possible to, get around that? And, with that being said, doesn't this make HB/GB sort of useless if we can't do anything about it?

 

[AutomaticCoding]

Run WoW in sandboxie with restricted rights for viewing other processes/files
Run HB normally

Thus, WoW can't see HB but HB can see WoW.

 

[CodenameG]

they cant scan for HB/GB anyway, if they could detect it, they would ban everyone, not just you. and if they wanted to scan for it with warden, there's nothing that could be done to bypass it if they really wanted to make it so we couldn't.

if they update their detection methods we will update the bot, its as simple as that.

wow cant read out of its own address space, they cant see what your doing, and since we dont modify the files WoW Uses again, thats a dead end for them.

dont know why people are paranoid.

 

[iswm]

this mini ban wave is screwing with ppls head.. its an auto ban with an auto reply email... just fight it threw the site and u'll get ur account back with in the our... got two bans today with the same reason.. dont get scared if hb/gb were infact modifying files well they would of closed it already..

 

[greaterdeath]

twow cant read out of its own address space, they cant see what your doing, and since we dont modify the files WoW Uses again, thats a dead end for them. dont know why people are paranoid.

Because what you are saying about monitoring running processes is contrary to what they are saying in the ToS.
Maybe you could explain what THEY mean when they say: "Blizzard will be scanning your computer for 3rd party programs during your time on WoW."

I'm not overly concerned, I just actually really don't know what they mean...outside of maybe they are hoping someone installs HB to their wow folder or something idk...

 

[ThatOneChick]

I think i'll start a porn folder in the WoW folder, maybe they'll see that...

 

[panYama]

this mini ban wave is screwing with ppls head.. its an auto ban with an auto reply email... just fight it threw the site and u'll get ur account back with in the our... got two bans today with the same reason.. dont get scared if hb/gb were infact modifying files well they would of closed it already..

there is no speaking of ban wave at all, people should really understand the terms there using to construct there replies.

 

[CodenameG]

Because what you are saying about monitoring running processes is contrary to what they are saying in the ToS.
Maybe you could explain what THEY mean when they say: "Blizzard will be scanning your computer for 3rd party programs during your time on WoW."

I'm not overly concerned, I just actually really don't know what they mean...outside of maybe they are hoping someone installs HB to their wow folder or something idk...

what they actualy do is "Blizzard will be scanning your computer for 3rd party programs inside World of Warcraft Adress space, during your time on WoW"
they cant scan your e-mail and shit, thats illegal. wow stays inside of wow, and looks for things modifying it, and WoW only cares about WoW, not what kind of porn you watch.

 

[ambrose]

So, my bot account had gotten banned for "Reason for Closure: Terms of Use Violation -- Exploitative Activity: Abuse of the Economy." - after looking up what that meant exactly, it supposedly meant that I was selling gold, which, I wasn't. I bot for my own gold and so I can have a life. . .

Anyway, I sent an appeal to Blizzard's support and they actually unbanned that account (I was shocked they did.) However, my concern is this - The Blizzard employee that replied to me quoted the Terms of Service that everyone has to agree to before playing World of Warcraft. What he quoted was: "...modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of the Game Client or the Service in any way not expressly authorized by Blizzard" - and under those terms it also says that Blizzard will be scanning your computer for 3rd party programs during your time on WoW.

So, my question is, if Blizzard is scanning for HB/GB or any other botting/hacking programs, how do we, or is it even possible to, get around that? And, with that being said, doesn't this make HB/GB sort of useless if we can't do anything about it?

mine said the same thing..except it was for using exploits and 'hacks'. they quoted me on the ToS and said after an extensive secondary review realized i wasn't in violation. there's nothing more that needs to be said. something was triggered automatically...which happens to ppl that don't even bot at all.

if you are worried about your account, don't bot. always a chance you could get the perma...but seeing as how your 72h was removed, you still have a warning before receiving the perma (in most cases anyway).

 

[mrserve]

Were you using a tunnel service specifically lowerping?