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Neocron Cheaters Get Unexpected Surprise

Posted by simoniker on from the welcome-to-karmic-payback dept.

Thanks to Avault.com for pointing to a Neocron news posting warning users of the MMORPG against fake cheat programs. According to administrators of this PC cyberpunk MMO title, "Several third party programs containing keyloggers or other malicious spyware have shown up recently. Skill-Chart.sfx.exe was posted on the Newbie forum and has quickly been removed. NeocronHook.exe claims to make you level faster and get more items and credits, but all it does is install a keylogger that sends its findings to an IRC channel." Those hoping to escape the levelling treadmill programmatically are, no doubt, very disappointed.

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  1. hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Would it suprise you if the game companies themselves were doing this to discourage cheating in the MMORPGS? I've written cheats for FPS's before, and although I did put in a backdoor to disable the bot if I wanted to (so I wouldn't have to play against my own aimbot), I wouldn't ever put in malware because it ruins your rep. And yes, you do have a rep in the cheating community :P -NoClanNeeded

  2. Re:Why Cheat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Why? Because the games are imperfect.

    If I created an flawed character (a smart warrior, any kind of druid) and slogged it up to the end game only to find that I can't compete, why should I have to xp grind another character all the way up? There are hundreds of other stupidities that can be overcome with a tweak or two.