05 Aug 2005 at 19:14 - 129
*shrugs*
You do realize that most Trojans and worms as well as key loggers and the like are often very difficult to detect and are NOT detected by conventional residential shields or virus scanners.
Maybe you should revise your trading methods, I don’t know, I have a feeling deep down that we don't have the full story or that something is a foot that we are not up wind of.
I have had over 360 hours of game play time, deleted and created pvp characters hourly sometimes, and even logged in and out of my account more often then I would have thought I ever would and have not been banned, warned, or kicked.
You may still have something or someone watching. Terminals are not only susceptible to attack through conventional means, such as virus, Trojans, backdoors, or worms. If your terminal is in a multi user environment, i.e. the "family computer" anyone who has or has had access to that terminal could be a cause for concern. In even broader concerns if you are on a network any terminal on that network could be a cause for concern. All it takes is for one to be compromised.
Win32 enviroment security is inheritently flawed. Making all users administrators. The ways of hiding and piggy backing programs are to many to count. It is often quite difficult for IT professionals and system Administrators let alone end user to maintain a clean and secure enviroment. Virtually ayone who has had access to your terminal can install hidden programs and services without you even knowing they are running just by looking in the normal places.
I can not see fault in Area nets actions as a system adminitrator I often base bans and temporary bans based on logs, bandwidth usage, packet numbers,types, and sequences. If you have done nothing wrong in your eyes well so be it, wait a week, the hold will be lifted and if you really have done nothing wrong, there is a high likely hood that you will not be blocked, banned or put on hold again. Just because you have been banned once does not mean you have done something wrong. It means something your terminal was doing looked suspicious enough that an administrator decided to take action to protect the network, maybe even you.
Keep a record of all your transactions with Area net, Date and times, monitor your connection activity inbound and out bound and note things that look odd, and if it ever happens again you might have more insight on the cause and be a cause for investigation of your situation.
