Blizzard will buy new HB accounts as soon as it comes back up, and they will use those HB accounts as research for the next few months. Then when all the 6 month banned accounts come back up and people jump back on them with the new HB, they will be permabanned because they will have had the new HB for months and know what to look for on each account. It sucks, but until the detection method is determined, it's just a waiting game for the ban. It's unfortunate, but those are the risks we take. The account I had banned in this last wave was less than two weeks old. In that two weeks I had 4 toons to level 70 and 7 more to level 50+ Whatever it was that happened, it was not because Blizzard had an extensive log on me. I wonder if they might possibly be keeping a hardware ID log of previous botters, and then flagging those hardware ID's for more extensive scrutiny once they log on.