Lex Luthor
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A few weeks ago, I created a fake aimbot and uploaded it to about a dozen forums. What this program actually does, if one is dumb enough to try it, is look up your registry and post it to a guestbook on aimprofiles.com. It's actually really simple, and took me about 15 minutes to make with Visual Basic 6.0, consisting of only three lines of my own code. I also found some code online to look up registry keys. It posts the keys to the guestbook with a very simple http request in the form of a URL immediately upon running the program. If you did a google search of "battlefield 2 aimbot", you'd now find my program all over the first page.
I made two versions, one for UT and one for BF2, and I posted links to both in a bunch of random forums. About 85% of these posts were edited, deleted, or resulted in a totally unjust ban, but the ones that stuck sure counted. You'd be surprised at how many noobs and wanna-be hackers will gleefully download and run anything that may give them the slightest advantage, especially my "bot" since those can be hard to find. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, they don't even exist for BF2. For UT2k4, you can just go to utcheats.net, and so there was less of a demand for my "bot", accordingly.
For about a few weeks, more and more people downloaded my program. They probably read the nice readme I wrote, saw the pretty ascii art, checked it with their antivirus program, then tried to run it. They were all sorely disappointed, I bet. Ah well, too bad for the wanna-be cheaters. That's what they get. These fools even disregarded the many posts in my threads that discussed how the bot doesn't work, how it might harvest your key, etc. But a majority of them didn't listen, or didn't see, because I still accumulated a whole mess of keys, almost all legitimate. Most people even tried the "bot" 3 or 4 times before giving up. (I could tell because I got their key that many times)
Some people who actually figured out how the program works, probably after being angry from having their key stolen from them, and in their rage tried to mess with the guestbook in various ways. They most likely opened it up in notepad, and found the URL in a string, which wouldn't be difficult because I made no attempt to disguise it. One person even spammed the guestbook with about 100 random hashes, just to try to screw it up.
Well, as of right now I have about 75 keys. Why did I make this? Well, first of all, it's summer, and I'm extremely bored, and I wanted to see if it was as easy as I thought it would be, after I realized that guestbooks are basically free MySQL databases. Second, I accidentally got my friend's UT2k4 key banned from botting on the wrong clan servers, so I owed him a few so he could play again. Third, all these noobs most likely deserve it.
What will I do with all these keys? Probably nothing, except give a few friends free copies of the games. And don't worry about me trying this with HL2, because I doubt it's possible, at least with my methods.
I made two versions, one for UT and one for BF2, and I posted links to both in a bunch of random forums. About 85% of these posts were edited, deleted, or resulted in a totally unjust ban, but the ones that stuck sure counted. You'd be surprised at how many noobs and wanna-be hackers will gleefully download and run anything that may give them the slightest advantage, especially my "bot" since those can be hard to find. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, they don't even exist for BF2. For UT2k4, you can just go to utcheats.net, and so there was less of a demand for my "bot", accordingly.
For about a few weeks, more and more people downloaded my program. They probably read the nice readme I wrote, saw the pretty ascii art, checked it with their antivirus program, then tried to run it. They were all sorely disappointed, I bet. Ah well, too bad for the wanna-be cheaters. That's what they get. These fools even disregarded the many posts in my threads that discussed how the bot doesn't work, how it might harvest your key, etc. But a majority of them didn't listen, or didn't see, because I still accumulated a whole mess of keys, almost all legitimate. Most people even tried the "bot" 3 or 4 times before giving up. (I could tell because I got their key that many times)
Some people who actually figured out how the program works, probably after being angry from having their key stolen from them, and in their rage tried to mess with the guestbook in various ways. They most likely opened it up in notepad, and found the URL in a string, which wouldn't be difficult because I made no attempt to disguise it. One person even spammed the guestbook with about 100 random hashes, just to try to screw it up.
Well, as of right now I have about 75 keys. Why did I make this? Well, first of all, it's summer, and I'm extremely bored, and I wanted to see if it was as easy as I thought it would be, after I realized that guestbooks are basically free MySQL databases. Second, I accidentally got my friend's UT2k4 key banned from botting on the wrong clan servers, so I owed him a few so he could play again. Third, all these noobs most likely deserve it.
What will I do with all these keys? Probably nothing, except give a few friends free copies of the games. And don't worry about me trying this with HL2, because I doubt it's possible, at least with my methods.
