The Steam Family Sharing Exploit is still a vivid problem CS:S, as it takes roughly 90 seconds to connect to a new VPN Server, create a new Steam account, and rejoin. I've re-banned the same griefer about 7 times now in the last 19 minutes; they're pretty persistent. Please help everyone using your products protect ourselves against this new `feature`.
Thanks, Kyle. On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Kyle Sanderson <kyle.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > Today, we're seeing a ton of banned, griefing players using VPNs and > throw-away Steam accounts to bypass server bans. The problem already seems > to be pretty widespread in CS:S. Considering this is the first weekend > where the beta was opened up, it's only going to get worse. I'm sure this > isn't isolated to CS:S, or my servers. There are many others running > community servers, some probably not even using Source that are impacted by > this. The native Steam Exploit seems to be getting abused quite heavily. > > The theoretical is now the present, > Kyle. > > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Jesse Oak <wazanato...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Every game copy should have an ID associated with it, this way an admin >> can ban per copy of the game rather then player ID. It's bad enough right >> now in TF2 and some of the Source mod games where a griefer can just >> quickly make a new account and reset their IP address having this start to >> happen in games like CSGO is going to be a major pain for admins. >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Valentin G. <nextra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Banning by IP is useless for many countries. And if cheaters abuse the >>> family sharing they will certainly go to the "lengths" of making a quick >>> new dial-in to grab that new IP. >>> >>> I have already said this much on the Beta Forums, and fully agree with >>> Kyle. This brings the TF2 F2P dilemma to every title. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Dominik Friedrichs <d...@forlix.org>wrote: >>> >>>> On 2013/10/18 03:38, N-Gon wrote: >>>> >>>>> I agree with Dog. >>>>> However, I would also like to note that with SourceMod you could ban >>>>> the >>>>> users by IP. Sure they can change it, but most of the trolls are either >>>>> too stupid to figure out how or too stupid to figure out how to do it >>>>> quickly. Meaning you'd see the "repeat offender" now and then, but not >>>>> enough to be too much of a nuisance. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I'd like to note that for broadband providers in my area it is quite >>>> common to hand out a different IP on every dial in, while a connection with >>>> that same IP can be kept alive for 24 hours at maximum. Hence I would never >>>> bother to ban by IP if the ban is supposed to be longer than a few hours. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>> please visit: >>>> https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hlds<https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
