From what I understand the guy who runs ESEA is pretty much saying "Yeah, we were talking about this one day and did it. Now you've caught us, so we'll be removing it and giving everyone a free month. We also made $3000 something dollars by mining with your computers, but we don't want you to be mad at us, so we won't do it again. But we totally had no problem with this earlier."
ESEA turned anti-cheat client into BTC miner
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Re: ESEA turned anti-cheat client into BTC miner
#12From what I understand the guy who runs ESEA is pretty much saying "Yeah, we were talking about this one day and did it. Now you've caught us, so we'll be removing it and giving everyone a free month. We also made $3000 something dollars by mining with your computers, but we don't want you to be mad at us, so we won't do it again. But we totally had no problem with this earlier."
Do you have a link to that post on the forum? I don't feel like digging through 4 pages of replies to find it.
Re: ESEA turned anti-cheat client into BTC miner
#13From what I understand the guy who runs ESEA is pretty much saying "Yeah, we were talking about this one day and did it. Now you've caught us, so we'll be removing it and giving everyone a free month. We also made $3000 something dollars by mining with your computers, but we don't want you to be mad at us, so we won't do it again. But we totally had no problem with this earlier."
He's also claiming that all of the money made this way will be put into a tournament prize pool, but still, that doesn't justify the behavior or attitude.
Re: ESEA turned anti-cheat client into BTC miner
#14This isn't surprising in the least. Anti-cheat clients are the worst, ever scummier than anti-virus clients.
If anyone here has ever played a game that used Inca GameGuard, you know what I'm talking about. If you open a page in your web browser with a title that seems suspicious to GameGuard, it can fucking REBOOT your computer without warning! And that's not the only client with such problems. From my experience, it has been a problem shared by many anti-cheat clients: they're all a bit too trigger-happy, even though they shouldn't be holding that gun in the first place. And if that wasn't bad enough, these clients are also notoriously buggy. They will corrupt the state of your kernel (they will do things like overwrite entries in your SDT/SSDT, making various system calls fail; in fact, it's very common practice for some of these tools to outright disable the use of functions like NtOpenProcess or ZwWriteVirtualMemory, and then not even bother to reallow them after the anti-cheat client exits), they will litter your Windows folder, and wreak havoc however they want.
And here's the kicker: these anti-cheat clients aren't even that effective if you know what you are doing.
Re: ESEA turned anti-cheat client into BTC miner
#15From what I understand the guy who runs ESEA is pretty much saying "Yeah, we were talking about this one day and did it. Now you've caught us, so we'll be removing it and giving everyone a free month. We also made $3000 something dollars by mining with your computers, but we don't want you to be mad at us, so we won't do it again. But we totally had no problem with this earlier."
Do you have a link to that post on the forum? I don't feel like digging through 4 pages of replies to find it.
Re: ESEA turned anti-cheat client into BTC miner
#16The thread is closed, which links to an explanation, which is below:
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[lpkane] - 5.1.13 at 1:46am
lol that got aggressive quickly
back towards the end of march, as btc was skyrocketing, jaguar and i were talking about how cool it would be if we could use massive amounts of gpus logged into the client to mine
we went back and forth about it, considered doing something for april fools, didn't get it done in time, and eventually elected to put some test code in the client and try it on a few admin accounts, ours included
we ran the test for a few days on our accounts, decided it wasn't worth the potential drama, and pulled the plug, or so we thought
fast forward to 48 hours ago, a fuck up in the client server results in a restart which results in a setting getting changed which enables it for all idle users, and here we are
and the results for 48 hours of your combined efforts?
http://www.picsend.net/images/923377coin...
~2 btc, or roughly $280 usd at current exchange rates, not bad!
anyway, our bad, we just released a client update with the btc stuff removed, and your $280 is going into the s14 prize pot -- if you're still feeling sad, feel free to pm me and i'll attempt to buy back your love
but for the record, i told jag he shouldn't be lazy and run the miner in a separate process, rookie move
Re: ESEA turned anti-cheat client into BTC miner
#17The thread is closed, which links to an explanation, which is below: ----------------------------------- [lpkane] - 5.1.13 at 1:46am lol that got aggressive quickly back towards the end of march, as btc was skyrocketing, jaguar and i were talking about how cool it would be if we could use massive amounts of gpus logged into the client to mine we went back and forth about it, considered doing something for april fools…
And then that thread was closed. And this one was opened: http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=forums&d=topic&id=4...
Turns out the ~$280 turned into over $3,500. And the 48 hours turned into 8 days.
Re: ESEA turned anti-cheat client into BTC miner
#18The thread is closed, which links to an explanation, which is below: ----------------------------------- [lpkane] - 5.1.13 at 1:46am lol that got aggressive quickly back towards the end of march, as btc was skyrocketing, jaguar and i were talking about how cool it would be if we could use massive amounts of gpus logged into the client to mine we went back and forth about it, considered doing something for april fools…
Actually, there is a follow up to that:
http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=forums&d=topic&id=4...
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[lpkane] 5.1.13 at 3:17am
first make sure you read part 1 of this developing story:
http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=forums&...
now for the more interesting news:
1. this has been running since april 14th, and definitely explains the virus warning due to the miner being a separate process
2. there were a total of 3 wallets on 3 pools set up for the test with the following addresses:
- 50btc: 1NsEeuxWB4ZvjVrxZcsmeMktDJPG5m4NCn - btc guild: 13X5R8tTGkvZnsvFd12AHqwpF2hp34QKUa - slush pool: 1NLy5djpAeU7uVNQ8meLQ4CweFU1hNfkQP
3. over the 2+ weeks it was apparently running, a total of 29.27627734 btc was mined, way more than 1.9!
4. daily sweeps were set up which converted btc to usd, and transactions totaled $3,602.21 (just sold the remaining btc to get a total)
so first the bad news, this is way more shady than i originally thought, and as the person who is ultimately responsible for everything it's 100% my fault
now the good news, as of the client update released in the last hour, all the btc stuff is out which should solve the gpu and av warnings, and in a blatant attempt to buy back your love (and less likely your trust), i'm going to do the following:
1. 100% of the funds are going into the s14 prize pot, so at the very least your melted gpus contributed to a good cause
2. every user who was premium this month will get a free one month premium code which they can use whenever and for whomever they like, and you'll find the code under manage accounts -> premium codes
once again, our bad, thanks for keeping us honest
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So, it turns out, it wasn't $280 worth of BTC that was mined, it was $3,602.21 . How you can 'accidentally' mine more than $3000 of BTC is beyond me!
Re: ESEA turned anti-cheat client into BTC miner
#19Re: ESEA turned anti-cheat client into BTC miner
#20I'll bite. Why not sell a service to a mining pool? Many services are free anyway. I'd fork over an hour of GPU per day to see fewer the ads.