Nineteen Eleven

defiance wrote:come on kirk, you are one of the most logical thinking persons on this board, why the sudden emotional illogical paranoia? cass was pushing this on me for seasons and as a result ive had one version or other installed on both my computers for over a year. all my money is still in my bank account, my SS# has not been stolen, my computer has not been hijacked. what evil mastermind would target the dod and dods communities. the source kids have been using this for awhile not, maybe talking to crono or whomever could alleviate your symptoms.

What about my posts has seemed emotional or illogical? I have asked others smarter than me to look into it, and have said that IF it is doing something it shouldn't be then I would not participate in TPG any longer. I am not making declarations so much as posing hypotheticals. There's nothing irrational about that.

Linus said he would be able to assess the program more specifically, and I think there's nothing wrong with going that route.

lolinus wrote:True, I'm just getting paid to work within companys IT enviroments, can't believe they'd do that. I offered my services, you denied fine.

What you are failing to understand, is basic bussiness. IF THEY ARE EARNING MONEY ON A PRODUCT YOU SURE AS SHIT WOULD NOT THROW THAT AWAY JUST TO GET A FEW GAMERS PERSONAL INFORMATION. Also, you can press charges in a different country, i aint a lawyer, so someone else should break that point down for you.


You just seems to dislike TPG.

@kevo, YOU HAVENT EVEN TRIED IT.

So, tell me, what's the first step in looking into the safety of this program?

no one's going to be handing out source code to a proprietary program lol

particularly for things like AC clients which have traditionally relied on security by obscurity

kirk wrote:

defiance wrote: [quote="lolinus"/quote]
So, tell me, what's the first step in looking into the safety of this program?

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I think, what'd be best since apparently the program is not open source, and there's no way to get it. The easiest would be to send it in to kaspersky.

I'll download the client and mess around with it.

motive wrote:crafty i don't know what kind of mental breakdown you've had in the past few months but have a drink and **** relax already

dod 2013

I'm so **** proud of myself right now

lolinus wrote:

kirk wrote:

lolinus wrote: If you're REALLY worried, or maybe one of the TPG admins, could send the AC client to a a security company, for example Kaspersky(http://support.kaspersky.com/virlab/helpdesk.html).

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Without reading the site, does this cost anything? And what information will they tell you regarding the program, exactly?

I'm not sure what exactly they will tell. I would assume they'd do a regular file analysis and then say "we do not believe this to be harmfull but we cannot guarantee".
It is however one of the bigger security companies, and i have only positive things to say about them(Bussines-2-bussines).

As far as i can see, it will not cost anything.

If you are their customer, it will go faster though.

This idea is pretty much a waste of time. The guaranteed answer from ANY reputable anti virus company is that this program (cleandod) is completely unsafe. Look at the information the program sends out. Process information, hardware information, IP address, etc.

The thing that inevitably makes me uncomfortable is the sending of process information. Every process that accesses the Internet uses a port. If that process has some sort of security loop hole it can also be attacked on that port and from there a range from nothing to a lot of bad shit can happen. Sending out the processes running on a computer doesn't make it any easier to access but it does cut out a lot of the guess work as to which process to attack.

In my opinion, per the information that has been provided, cleandod isn't doing anything unnecessary. The only thing I really don't understand is why they need to know anything about the hardware in our computers. Obviously we need process information to find out who's running ****.exe. Equally as obvious we need screenshots, cvars, configs, etc.

Bottom line is:

You don't use cleandod and play with cheaters

OR

You let cleandod molest your computer and even so will still probably end up playing with cheaters

Download Process Monitor, run it and launch cleandod. Filter to cleandod. You'll see exactly what it's doing and what IP addresses it is talking to.

knockout wrote:

motive wrote:crafty i don't know what kind of mental breakdown you've had in the past few months but have a drink and **** relax already

dod 2013

I'm so **** proud of myself right now

Scott Gordon right now:

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