Chimaera 68 Posted September 2, 2012 For all you idiots that try to hack Dayz without actually doing the work yourselves by just grabbing the latest hack you see.This is what happens when you doQuote from the Battleye site WARNING: Massive cd-key theft going on [ 29.08.2012 • 17:00 ]As already mentioned in the previous news post, there is currently a massive ongoing effort by certain entities to steal people's cd-keys to then sell them for a profit. Private hack forums are full of posts of these fraudsters trying to sell heaps of cd-keys for a cheap price. We are talking about hundreds of cd-keys here, so this is not a small issue at all. The game developers confirmed that this is a huge problem right now. Their process of stealing cd-keys is quite simple: They advertise a supposedly undetected hack on sites like YouTube and the moment you download and run it (it will probably report that the hack failed to load) your cd-key is already stolen. In many cases your actual cd-key in registry is overwritten with a banned one, so you will automatically receive a global ban message on join (see below). This is done to prevent you from using your cd-key again, so the fraudsters can sell them claiming that they are valid and not in use. Note that this can be fixed (temporarily) by deleting the cd-key from the registry and reinstalling your game. While your original cd-key is not banned due to this, it might very well end up being soon when your cd-key is being used by a cheater that purchased it. This causes many players to think they were innocently banned when in fact their cd-key was stolen and used for cheating. At the very least you will often receive a "CD key in use" message when trying to connect to servers. If you think this is false propaganda to cover up supposed false global bans I advise you to do some research on this yourself. You can easily verify this by searching for "free ***" on YouTube. You will see lots of results and almost all of them are scams. Most of them are actually quite popular and have thousands of views. When downloading them and opening the .exe file in e.g. Notepad (warning: do not actually run the .exe!), you can find cd-key related strings such as "SOFTWARE\Bohemia Interactive Studio\ArmA 2 OA" (the registry location of the cd-key) inside. In short, heed the following: DO NOT EVER RUN ANY HACKS OR OTHER SUSPICIOUS SOFTWARE! If you end up being banned due to your cd-key being stolen there is nothing we can do for you. http://www.battleye.com/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nik21 287 Posted September 2, 2012 There's already a thread about that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
enforcer1975 1111 Posted September 2, 2012 You should not warn hackers and wannabe hackers...they deserve to be ass raped by the bigger fish. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lobo1845 9 Posted September 2, 2012 Cheaters getting cheated by other cheaters who then sell to other cheaters. Sounds about right, if only there was a way to screw them all over at once. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sticker704 121 Posted September 2, 2012 Don't warn the skids. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
A9Carlos 3 Posted September 2, 2012 Hard luck. Seems like appropriate repercussions if you ask me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deetwo 69 Posted September 2, 2012 Cheaters getting cheated by other cheaters who then sell to other cheaters. Sounds about right, if only there was a way to screw them all over at once.Perhaps the cheaters will thank their respective cheating providers later? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
