Issue with BattleEye global ban

[-=TGS=- Coops 0]

Hey guys I need some help. I have contacted BattleEye twice before anyone mentions them.

The other day i went to log into DayZ to join the rest of my clan members, to recieve a delightful message saying i'd been global banned for #3065. After looking into this i was bewildered as to why as I hadn't downloaded anything, neither have i ever hacked. I contacted BattleEye, to no Provail. However I did reinstall my Arma2 and DayZ mod completely, and it worked.

Today when I logged on, after dying last night and respawning on the coast. I found that my humanity had shot up to about 4500, i had an m4al cco sd, a gi7 with 8 mags, a coyote backpack with an AKS in there and also a full toolbelt NVGs and RFs, also i was in power plant.

I decided to re-log. On doing so I found myself in factory with about 1500 humanity but losing blood.

My character died, and i re spawned completely fresh. But this time after i logged of and back in, I found I had been banned for #90a9 which i can't find any information on it. I have contacted BattleEye about this too.

Any Ideas Guys

Cheers

Coops

Edited September 2, 2012 by -=TGS=- Coops

[shadow_moses 50]

Sounds like someone has stolen your CD key to me. But don't take my word for it I am far from an expert.

[-=TGS=- Coops 0]

Thats what the clan reckons too. But my question is how?

[Tweakie 199]

http://www.battleye.com/

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.

Global Ban #3065 [ 20.08.2012 • 11:20 ]

Recently many users have contacted us regarding this specific ban. We've investigated the problem and found that it's simply caused by a fake hack that is in fact a cd-key stealer. It also overwrites the user's actual cd-key with a banned one resulting in this very ban ID (the actual cd-key is not banned due to this).

This news post will be removed shortly as there is no point in mentioning such things. After all it's the cheaters' fault for getting themselves banned like that.

Edited September 2, 2012 by Tweakie

[-=TGS=- Coops 0]

Cheers tweakie but as I said above i've already read through all of this, and contacted battle eye. As hard as it it for me to rpove to people i havent, i can assure you i have NOT downloaded anything. I don't hack neither do I know how to. Someone has suggested to me that as my anti virus has expired I could be a victim of mailware or spyware attack

Edited September 2, 2012 by -=TGS=- Coops

[Tweakie 199]

Then download AVG or MSE (if you have a legit windows) and run a scan. Or any of the free anti virus software...since you might be a victim, try multiples(not at once)

Also if you are abit techy, try "hijackthis" and see if anything is suspicious. Hijackthis can be a dangerous tool for your computer...don't try, if you don't know what to do..It makes no distinction between legit software and malware..it just show every-fucking-thing. Use it wrong and you fuck up your computer.

[-=TGS=- Coops 0]

I'm downloading Avast, my windows is legit. I'm not really a techy person, i have good knowledge, but what your describing sounds a bit too dangerous for me to touch :S