Honorbuddy Announcement 21th May 2015

[Pierlala]

Damn it blizzard won

I was really hoping Honorbuddy would have beat them

Sad day

What do you mean?

 

[Valpsjuk]

Oh yes, happy days...

Been leveling "by hand" but with combat rotation and it is soooooooooooooo boring! Gief HB now kthxby!

 

[Mario27]

Damn it blizzard won

I was really hoping Honorbuddy would have beat them

Sad day

did you not readed bossland in the first post honorbuddy wil come back this weekend where did it say that blizzard wonnered?

 

[Larryardilla]

Maybe bossland knows stuff but he said he doesn't to trick Blizzard, because they probably read this forum...

Cleaver.

 

[oskom1]

i was banned just week before ban wave for 72h

 

[Goldflake]

Cleaver.

cleave what xD ?

ohh you mean clever? #Kappa

 

[flyg]

Most of our accounts and IPs are flagged of course for "closer" inspection after the HB back up and running. Those that linked accounts to their battlenet for hierlooms and mounts etc have a big flag on them already for investigations. Same I guess with IPs unless you can get a new one from ISP.

On a personal note...wish you wouldn't bring back the battleground bot... farming ones, lvling ones, garrison ones...fine. But battlegrounds ideally enyo rotiations only coz right now random battlegrounds are actually fun without afk bg bots everywhere... but thats just me being selfish i guess (though with ashran you gear in a day so farming honor??? farming mats etc surely better use of time...)

 

[JUANNY]

What do you mean?

He means that since they are clueless as to the means of detection releasing the bot is at best a stab in the dark

 

[virtual]

^^^^

Yep

What will be the point of using honorbuddy. They have no clue how they got detected they are on blizzards shit list, might as well go put your money in the toilet and flush it.


Don't get me wrong I love honorbuddy and i hope you guys come back with a vengeance and find a way to by pass blizzards detection and just make them beg you to take it easy on them!!
In the meanest possible ways i hope honorbuddy finds a way to destroy blizzard

But for now using honorbuddy would be throwing money away for me.

 

[iwwt]

on a certain unnanmed website that offers an unofficial version of HB they were able to make honorbuddy available to select users post-banwave and those users reported that their accounts were banned, which strongly implies the detection is still active.

this is not good news

Source ?

 

[Themer]

Well, if the current version of HB is still detectable, I hope that additional logging is turned on for HB so maybe they can detect the new method of detection. I would be interested in things like a process renamer, a custom compile of HB (resulting in a unique hash if scanned), and possibly a 64-bit version so that monitoring all processes modifying memory require more resources and hopefully more time to scan for HB (and possibly creating unacceptable overhead to regular WoW players that the resource consumption is prohibitive )

 

[JUANNY]

There is one aspect of botting detection that I havent seen discussed or mention on any thread that ive read. Server side detection has normally been addressed as it relates to afk bots using and repeating the same pathing on the world map. Then with search algorithm they can conclude with a high degree of accuracy whether it is a human or a bot at the helm. However it is possible that blizz is also using server side detection to catch "super efficcient" combat routines. Think about a 15 min raid encounter where a bot is casting spells right at the GCD availability for extended period of time. Im sure blizzard has access to their own server side combat logs.

 

[Themer]

There is one aspect of botting detection that I havent seen discussed or mention on any thread that ive read. Server side detection has normally been addressed as it relates to afk bots using and repeating the same pathing on the world map. Then with search algorithm they can conclude with a high degree of accuracy whether it is a human or a bot at the helm. However it is possible that blizz is also using server side detection to catch "super efficcient" combat routines. Think about a 15 min raid encounter where a bot is casting spells right at the GCD availability for extended period of time. Im sure blizzard has access to their own server side combat logs.

They may have that access, but considering how much data of that type is being generated at any given moment, I wonder if they have the computer to effectively track it.

 

[Themer]

They may have that access, but considering how much data of that type is being generated at any given moment, I wonder if they have the computer to effectively track it.

Actually, I wonder if that may not be what they did... there was mention from some report that they only banned if botting between April 29th and May 7th. If they took all that data and gave it to a cloud computer provider and had them parse the logs, it might take a week of crunching, resulting in a ban on the 13th. It is feasible that it was logged data...

 

[JUANNY]

They may have that access, but considering how much data of that type is being generated at any given moment, I wonder if they have the computer to effectively track it.

Like someone said earlier blizz is a multimillion dollar company so that if they "want" to detect a bot they will expend whatever resource necessary to do so. One way to look at it a question from them gauging and measuring their desire to ban the user as opposed to shutting down the bot maker

 

[yupaporn]

Actually, I wonder if that may not be what they did... there was mention from some report that they only banned if botting between April 29th and May 7th. If they took all that data and gave it to a cloud computer provider and had them parse the logs, it might take a week of crunching, resulting in a ban on the 13th. It is feasible that it was logged data...

then other bots and 64bits scripts would have been hit aswell. but no only HB users was hit.

 

[JUANNY]

then other bots and 64bits scripts would have been hit aswell. but no only HB users was hit.

Not if they were specifically targeting HB. Remember that HB is by far the biggest botmaker and also is in court with blizz so they have the highest profile of any bot. Shutting down HB will send a strong message that will resonate throughout the botting community.

 

[foam_follower]

Please, for the sake of simple common sense, give us a x64 version of HB. We should be taking every step possible to hide ourselves amongst the 80%+ x64 users (90%+ in Europe). I know that the DEV's have said they won't consider it, but even an old fart like myself can see that we're going to stand out like a nun in a brothel if we stick to x86.

 

[foam_follower]

Please, for the sake of simple common sense, give us a x64 version of HB. We should be taking every step possible to hide ourselves amongst the 80%+ x64 users (90%+ in Europe). I know that the DEV's have said they won't consider it, but even an old fart like myself can see that we're going to stand out like a nun in a brothel if we stick to x86.

And I have such fond memories of that nun too. Great days.

 

[Trixiap]

Please, for the sake of simple common sense, give us a x64 version of HB. We should be taking every step possible to hide ourselves amongst the 80%+ x64 users (90%+ in Europe). I know that the DEV's have said they won't consider it, but even an old fart like myself can see that we're going to stand out like a nun in a brothel if we stick to x86.

You really doesn´t know single thing about bots detection, yet you are trying to give advices... x64 will not save use! How many times it must be written?