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Storm 02-18-2002 01:55 PM

an Verant Detect EQW?
 
Hey do you know if Verent an tell you are runnin EQ in EQW?
Pleasetell me ASAP I just dont want my account killed on me if thy can but I also want to talk to my friends while play. If you can help thanks.

ZeroDegrez 02-18-2002 02:31 PM

No way to tell, its being done all on your side, and no info is being sent by EQW so I dont see how it would be possible unless verant was secretly sneeking a peek at your hard-drive.

Yodason 02-18-2002 02:33 PM

possible yes legal no

Storm 02-18-2002 02:33 PM

Thanks alot for your help.

Shawn319 02-19-2002 12:29 AM

Verant will never find out you're using EQW unless you /tell Abashi "Hi i'm using EQW! ban me!"

OR if thay put code in eqgame to see if you have eqw.exe on your harddrive (illegal on there part and will never be done because of privacy)

Baron Sprite 02-19-2002 06:21 PM

Well they could know if you are doing it, it's just that they can't do anything about it :D (Remember the good ol days of EQ scanning your favorites and web history? ;) )

EvIl-QuEsT 02-19-2002 06:32 PM

LOL funny dude! If verant was scanning our computers without our knowledge or a search warrent they would be breaking the law and anything they found would not hold up in court even if it got that far!

Windcatcher 02-20-2002 02:06 AM

Just do what I did and QUIT. :) I can't describe the freedom of not giving a rat's behind what VI thinks of my using EQW.

Windcatcher

zordon 02-20-2002 03:00 AM

Theoretically - yes. EQW is loded in the Everquest process and can be detected without scanning your harddrive or other programs you running.

Legally - I am not sure. If they not scanning your hard drive or other processes and just look into their own process .... I would leave it to the lawers.

Practically - if they will start banning people for using it - they might loose half of their customer base.

Razzle 02-20-2002 09:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zordon
Practically - if they will start banning people for using it - they might loose half of their customer base.

Members: 439, Threads: 518, Posts: 2,965

Somewhat less than half- though a large chunk nonetheless.

I would hope most people here stopped playing EQ on Verant servers a while ago- it promotes brain rot.

EvIl-QuEsT 02-20-2002 10:30 AM

Hey,


Razzle so I take it your a doctor then. So what did you get your PH.D in? How the brain functions playing video games? Also what did you major in?.....

theCoder 02-20-2002 04:27 PM

Legal to scan hard drives, if they want to
 
Didn't you ever read the EULA? I think they experimented with that for a while, but it may not be there anymore. They could put it back in if they wanted to though. They probably don't care, though. They know you can't run anything else with EQ's 320+ MB memory footprint. The only program I know of that can beat that is Oracle...

Pyrotek 02-21-2002 12:36 AM

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We've got a bit of a following.

1018BootsYou 02-24-2002 02:57 PM

What about resident memory?
 
This is just a guess from what I know of comps, but wouldn't it be possible for varant to scan the programs currently running in memory?

Somewhat in the way that a virus scanner checks for any viruses currently in memory.

It's a theory. Feel free to blow it out of the water. :)

-1018

RoByte 02-24-2002 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yodason
possible yes legal no



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