The representative said Honorably by name, I adamantly claimed I didn't have any other software on my computer and didn't even know what they spoke off. Then she said honorbuddy and i said I would run a scan but I was sure I wouldn't find anything and that they were mistaken somehow. She said that honorbuddy was running on my computer at the same time wow was up, not that it was attached or anything else. simply that it was on my computer running while I was on wow. I never mentioned botting at all she did, I never mentioned HB by name she did. She even explained that it was hard to set up, and that it wasn't an addon and more in detail. She pretty much educated me on botting when I asked her why my malware software never found it. I will still claim that I wasn't boting and didn't ever have a bot if it ever comes up again. I never used it like others. I used it very little. Again you need to read what I said before you accuse me of being tricked.
How did my other game get banned if they didn't see it on my computer? This is why I was asking about the LUA. And this whole conversation was after my second account was banned. I had appealed the action for both accounts.
I am giving this information to try and help to figure out how bliz is detecting. Not to throw darts at people. You seem pretty defensive.
None of this detracts from Blizzard stating that HB was seen running on my computer.
The fix has to be easy, simply make us rename the exe that shows up on the computer when we turn it on.
Rowman598, again - this scenario you describe, while chatting with the Blizzard representative is unlikely to be happened. But if it does honestly had taken place, then you were badly trolled, indeed, and again you seems to had became victim of the Blizzard representative's social engineering skills for the following reasons:
1. Blizzard do not have legal possibility
on their own to check if certain customer run certain applications on their computer systems. I underlined "on their own", because if any customer "in his free will" give them such information, they could use it, of course: Like sending Blizzard screenshots, Dxdiag logs, Crash dumps or similar.
That way they could legally acquire information, which could used them at their favor - For example, that you were running Honorbuddy, while dumping DxDiag logs.
2. The way, common users think that Blizzard do perform scans on your RAM or Hard Drive for botting software is not technically possible again, because they have to do it with their own client software only which is installed on the customers computers.
These scanning methods have to be either pre-coded and embedded within the client software, or sent online on-the-fly like the famous dynamic Warden modules, but both of the above are monitored, debugged and reversed virtually by thousands of individuals, a few of which have developer experience and background, much superior than the one Blizzard developers together have.
So if Blizzard do unofficially try and obtain any information from its customers outside their legal playground borders, the following will happen:
- The fact with its corresponding details will be recorded and leaked to the public by numbers of individuals, usually almost in the same time.
- It will get targeted on various social networks and forums in matter of hours.
- Sooner or later it will get into the radar of the thousands of organizations or individuals, which do make their living off filling class suits vs corporations in their home countries. Usually those would be not even aware what "World of Warcraft" stands for, but they do not need to, they just need opportunity to make their living!
