How does Blizzard have the right to scan your personal computer for other software?

How does Blizzard have the right to scan your personal computer for other software?

 

they don't

https://www.thebuddyforum.com/honorbuddy-forum/110414-wardens-computer-scans-eu-law.html

 

They can scan their own software and detect a .dll injected into it.

ever hear of Punkbuster?

 

detecting players botting should be trivial, if they keep track of things like settings, version of client, etc
They could easily find botters using legal methods/not using warden

Perhaps they finally got smart

 

I hope that Blizzard is ready to see their user base disappear. All that will be left are Chinese farmers and 10 year olds. After this I am done.

 

I'm assuming using the 32-bit client could have been a huge giveaway to something not being right. You want to ban a lot of people. Start by filtering out everyone using 32-bit client. It's not the default client and there's really no reason to run it. Now you've substantially lessened the names in your playerbase list and you start applying more and more filters until you find patterns.

 

I'm not sure they are scanning. I haven't taken any steps to hide my HB folder, yet I was not hit. I'm curious whether this 'new detection' is a recent thing, as I haven't been playing/botting for the last 2 months.

This. I always thought it was a bad idea not to upgrade to a 64 bit because very few legit people would be running 32 bit client. It's easy for me to say, I know it was only possible to do what they did because Blizz fucked up once and released the 32 bit client data, but the fact that HB could only run 32 bit was going to be used against it sooner or later.

They never did though because it just wasn't worth the $$ to do so. At the end of the day, the original audience for HB, trash account gold farmers, have had 5 years of botting with bans here and there. This is merely a setback for them... They will be back with some other bot.

For those of us who used HB as a crutch for our gameplay or as a way to take out the boring shit, we are the one's hit hardest, and there's not much can be done. As they said 'we told you not to use your main accounts'.

 

it wasnt detected today, or within the last week thats for sure. i havent logged in the past 2 weeks, 1.5 months if you dont count loggin in to chat with guildies. they had the ban list for a while

 

Account Action: 6-Month Suspension
Offense: Exploitation of game mechanics

Recent activity on this account has shown characters exploiting functionality to the detriment of the game environment or the intended player experience.
The account holder is responsible for all activity on the account. We issue suspensions and closures to protect our players and our service in accordance with our Terms of Use: blizzard.com/company/about/termsofuse.html

Exploitive gains such as items or currency may have been removed as part of this action. Further inappropriate behavior may result in additional penalties, including permanent closure. For dispute of this action and further information on exploitative activity, please review our appeal process: battle.net/support/article/6741

This World of Warcraft account will be reactivated on November 13th, 2015.
Thank you for your time and for understanding.

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I got banned and I'm using a linux OS and running WOW + HB under wine. I would know if Blizzard was scanning folders

 

just got banned two accounts got email for 1 account banning it for 6 months and when I went to log on other account banned as well no email on that 1 and also they bill me after ban?

 

this does not apply to the US obviously

 

its not folders they scan its whats in the memory.

 

OOO god Punkbuster and fairfight fail any one remember that on a few games damn thing would go crazy and mass ban for no reason lol like warz legit player or not we were all scared of being ban.

 

Blizzard did this for one reason. They kicked long standing members to get them to pay for the game again on another account.

 

Thanks so much for contacting us here at Blizzard Entertainment today, it was a pleasure chatting with you!

This is just a follow up regarding the conversation we had about the World of Warcraft account. As we discussed the account was found to be using third party software which resulted in the current account action. The appeal has been sent to be reviewed and will have an email sent with the findings. The forum post has information regarding the action that was taken against the account.

Recent Actions Against Botting in WoW
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/17347095985

Thank you for your understanding and patience while it is reviewed.