It has become quite apparent that everyone has a big theory on how they detected a lot of people botting in wow all of a sudden. Forget all court cases and process scanning for a just a min. What kind of computer you have, process blocker, renamed files, scheduling, watching the bot run around while you eat junk food has far less to do with discovering a bunch of assholes automating their gameplay than what you see on the surface. All of the actions the bot performs which emulates your fat fingers is tracked on their servers. There is this thing called machine learning / data mining / predictive analytics. This area of data analysis can be used to understand just about everything about data which you are creating while being logged into the game. Here is a small example just looking at names: Fun Facts about World of Warcraft Character Names | GameAnalytics Blog Read other posts or take a coursera course on machine learning if you want hands on experience. Now the type of banwave you just felt is not driven by breaking your privacy because activision legal is not that stupid and this type of ban will need to be reported in Q2-3 revenue if its really impactful on their bottom line. The emails you received initially or in a reply is a customer service standard. This means its prefabricated and planned ahead of time so all communication is consistent and they are ready for their support queue to blow up and can be scaled. I am not going to speculated on how they caught you or if they detected HB. If the HB Dev could add or create a mode that adds random variance to appear human like (human behavior is chaotic) into HB you would make it a bitch for Blizz to detect you with there current model which is classifying you as a botter. Bot detection is a classification problem. Creating an accurate model would be a massive undertaking and would only work until bots become smarter. Then its back to the drawing board for them. In short, do not be predictable or follow the same path with precise key spam of a gaming god.
they put the wording in the Terms so that you would have to agree to let them search. its giving consent to search by hitting the agree button. blizz didnt take anyone rights, or invade anyones privacy. we invited them in and gave permission. like a vampire. you need to invite them into your home, or they will be compelled to get a warrant. pvp players rely on you to be predictable. and if there wasnt a use for precise key spamming of a gaming god, then simcraft wouldnt need to exist. and botting does not make you a gaming god. you are likely to be in the middle of the chart, right above the bads, if you rely completely on the bot. that means, a player will use their cds at the exact same point in the fight, they will do the correct rotation, they will stand in the right place every time. thats not a bot, thats a good player. but otherwise, an entertaining post 9/10 for not having some batshit theory.
Since it seems people running an OS in 32 Bit didn't receive a ban. I am going to say this had nothing to do with why HB was detected.
This is malarkey bud. A for effort on trying to sound smart, but I'm sure everyone is already familiar with data gathering and its possibilities. With that they could still only strongly infer, not prove. Besides the other two x64 rotation bots are fine. Blows that theory out the water. It was a x86 detection.
ROFL! STOP ALL THE THEORIES ABOUT HOW BLIZZARD DETECTED THE BOT! Listen to my theory of how Blizzard detected the bot... Funny!
They are scanning for processes pure and simple. You can sit here and talk about data mining. There is no method that has this much success rate but the simplest method of all and you all know what that is. Rename the process "WindowsSecurityAgent.exe" and let's get on with our botting.
Sorry but no. All that does is change the name shown. It does not change the actual process ID. There are tuts about how to do that though if you want to learn. IIRC there is a post around here somewhere that describes how to do it. But once again i will say it. No-one but Bl!zz knows how or why they do what they do. As in no-one knows how far down the tree they look.
which doesnt work at all because you can clearly use other comparatives than the name of the process. file size, hash, ram usage. youd have just as much success renaming the process thisisntthebotyourelookingfor.exe'
