New WC3 exploit

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Might as well make the game engine open source while they're patching, right?


...Right?

 

[Billy the Cat]

I think that using the game engine is probably a waste of time if they remove it (hopefully) soon.

 

[Tleno]

They are really gonna fix it normaly, becauce:
1. No mapmaking - no fun. Some play it just becauce of mapmaking.
2. No open source warcraft - its their trademark.
3. No multiplayer - no fun too... right?

P.S. And if someone will decide to change whole warcraft, please add teraforming ^^

 

[Steel_Stallion]

Who was the person that pointed this out to the public in the first place? Why bring attention to it and not just keep it to yourself and report it to blizzard?

No one would have even noticed, and no one would figure out this exploit in the first place (Assuming of course, it isn't a person with the intention of hurting the community that discovered it in the first place.)

 

[Captain Griffen]

The Russians found it first.

Plus security through obscurity sucks. Badly.

 

[Eccho]

Hm... a friend of mine said his friend (lol) got the virus map once. When he tried to run it in single player wc3 crashed, msn logged off, loggen in and added a strange line on the top of the window. The virus map also seemed to have poofed, and from what I heard next, he wasn't able to play Dota since after that.

I don't believe in it yet, but an anti-dota virus is always nice^^

 

[Tleno]

Cool ^^
But it might "block" not only Dota

 

[Rising_Dusk]

Might as well make the game engine open source while they're patching, right?

What? Blizzard actually helping the modding communities? Preposterous notion.

 

[SanKakU]

Omg you are right. They can encrypt the virus on an protected map and have it executed in game, if someone need to do damage, they sure can.

blizz should just ban all protected maps from bnet. yeehaw! but that would be a lot of work cuz then they'd need something to officialize the versions to keep from dealing with 1000 versions of LT/DOTA

Who was the person that pointed this out to the public in the first place? Why bring attention to it and not just keep it to yourself and report it to blizzard?

No one would have even noticed, and no one would figure out this exploit in the first place (Assuming of course, it isn't a person with the intention of hurting the community that discovered it in the first place.)

excellent point, i get the feeling that knowing this makes someone less want to play warcraft and more want to just wait for sc2. unfortunately for someone like most of the people at this kind of site we would want to continue working with wc3 for the time being....and have the community be strong for wc3 until sc2 arrives there's no need to weaken the community...especially it's more important for rookie map-makers such as myself.

for me i only almost have one good map done and one good map just started on and 3 or 4 lousy older maps. for someone like me, it's understandable to want sc2 to come out, but feeling the wc3 community fall apart before sc2 comes kinda sucks...

 

[sadvisor]

I wonder why the guy(s) that made this script have posted it on internet, instead of using it without anyone knowing it.

if you want to see the "hack" on work, download and run the map.
A cmd-like terminal pops up, demonstraiting the map "Abilities". (That's way it should be runed in windowed mode)

 

[BlargHonk]

This, is, not, good.

 

[Viikuna]

Some say that there were a small group of Russians, who knew about this and kept it secret long time before it became public....

Some say it was a conspiracy...
Some say they were behind abductions, implants and all that UFO shit..

Some say that when the truth came out, they attacked DotA with that faked virus map...

Some say..


edit. And it was all lies.

edit3. Guess what? It was all real!

edit4. But what happened to edit2 ?

edit5. I feel like spamming..

 

[Tleno]

I was on XGM.ru, I found information that it works on all versions... and this bug was found only now... Imagine, maybe there is already lots of virus maps, maybe Dota is one of them already and it brainwashes you! Cool...

 

[Ash]

Ok it's formal now, the Hive Admin agrees with me. And so did the world e-leaders of other sites.

I give Operation Mosquitoe green light.

HIVEchan opposes this, and pledges full support to operation mosquito as a consequence.

 

[Draknyte1]

operation mosquito must go ahead...... or we will have to make a top top top secret heavily classified operation and we are going to call it "operation nuclear sheep"

 

[Tleno]

No. It must be called "Dota go home (to hell, ofcourse)"!

 

[Gm_Skiller]

lol so its possible why don't check the ip of the downloaded map where is has been uploaded and send a viruss back ???

i mean it would atleast stop a few viruss map makers things

 

[HappyTauren]

You obviously don't know anything about this or wc3.

 

[Eccho]

You dont even know if the map is poofing afterwards...

 

[Gm_Skiller]

HappyTauren obviously you don't know anything about what i mend

and if you don't know it, don't go talk rude and shity

 

[HappyTauren]

Because "check the ip of the downloaded map where is has been uploaded and send a viruss back ???" made no sense whatsoever.

 

[BlargHonk]

He ment find out the IP of the person who uploaded it to a site like EpicWar and then counterattack with a virus

 

[Ebisux]

Im curious, who made this virus idea and put it in maps

Edit: Well i read the 8th page.i feel sorta dumb now :O

 

[Bloody_Turds]

virusing a virusor is no solution, but rather hacking their system to remove any data/cdkeys/pws they may have collected, and/or delivering them to the authoritys. out of curiosity has anyone actually found a map using this exploit, besides the example? or more particularly one with viral scripts?

the thing about finding the IP of the uploader... is proxies can easily mask it... maybe if the map itself found the ip on save in editor.. although that would be fairly easy to counter also, by removing the IP data from the map via 3rd party apps. they could require a copy of a map to be sent to a blizzard server for a virus scan, before it may be hosted, this would have to be done for each version, then the game would compare a hosted map to the database, se if theres an exact match (filesize, and other stuff) and that it was concidered safe

 

[Dr. House]

Great... i downloaded a map now evry time i wana play custom game i get a error and wc3 shuts down and now evry time i reinstall wc3 i get a error and stops the install. or when it works and i wana patch it to the currently patch i get a error 2. if somone knows this problem or know how to help me plz do i hate this

 

[Azeroc]

Blizzard dont focus much on Warcraft 3 anymore, thats why security is low...
Ohh and no wonder when i donwload some maps AVG auto-delete them, cause they have that virus...

And no you cant check IP where map is downloaded in BNet but you may check IP from example users what posted their maps on some site...

All main thing to avoid such viruses: NEVER turn off your security systems, update em always, dont download hacks or any 3rd party programs unless you 100% know they are virus free...

If you have virus and dont know way to get rid of it, either ask suggestions for proffesionals or call em, cause if you do something against virus that you dont know how to get rid of it, you will just screw your system even more.

About DotA: I personally dont care , I play it sometimes and sometimes not, Its very popular cause blizzard supported it AND they supported it cause they can profit from it...

 

[Dr. House]

that doesnt help me much

 

[Eleandor]

Blizzard dont focus much on Warcraft 3 anymore, thats why security is low...

This exploit was possible as soon as jass was available, back in the days that blizzard certainly still cared about <acronym title="Warcraft 3"><acronym title="Warcraft 3">wc3</acronym></acronym>. It was only discovered recently. I mean, really, it's not because it's an "old" game that blizzard decides to ADD security holes... They were there already and the fact they haven't been removed yet is simply because blizzard probably didn't know about it either.

Ohh and no wonder when i donwload some maps AVG auto-delete them, cause they have that virus...

I highly doubt that. Until you run the map, no antivirus will recognise virusses in maps... If they do, it's probably a false report.

And no you cant check IP where map is downloaded in BNet but you may check IP from example users what posted their maps on some site...

Nobody's going to post virus maps on sites that need approval of resources... Besides, most people have dynamic ip's and if you're really worried, you can always hide behind proxies.

EDIT: and for some reason it adds <acronym> tags automatically that don't get parsed... Hurray bugz.

 

[BlargHonk]

If you have Spybot S&D's TeaTimer Add-on then your good.

Tea Timer asks about every single change of any file on any drive or folder (if in Paranoid mode)

Yes, I am in paranoid mode, yes I am getting warnings about this sites cookies right now.

 

[Draknyte1]

lol i got Spybot S&D but stuff paranoid mode on teatimer

 

[Xarwin]

Report to the government that Blizzard has a way to inject unstoppable viruses D:.

 

[Tleno]

Report Chinese goverment that American spies can hide secret information in Warcraft 3 maps!

 

[Dr. House]

cant one person help me? i cant install warcraftIII normaly without 1 error if its not the install than its a patch error. its its not the patch and i install TFT than i get another error .... with evry damn warcraftIII install i get a error...

 

[Tleno]

This is not suitable place to talk about this. We talk here about new problem with viruses in Warcraft maps, not about instaling errors.

 

[Ash]

He ment find out the IP of the person who uploaded it to a site like EpicWar and then counterattack with a virus

You sir, are a retard.

P.S shouldn't the Hive do what Madagascar is doing?

 

[Captain Griffen]

Nah.

I wiped out Madagascar. In under 100 days. Go me.

 

[BlargHonk]

I started off in Madagascar, but then Cuba escaped me D:

 

[Draknyte1]

wanna blame bill gates? then nuke him?

 

[I)eath2u4me]

I started off in Madagascar, but then Cuba escaped me D:

Pandemic 2 is such a fun game. Madagascar is so hard to get though.

Anyway on topic now. I think very soon Blizzard is going to "near-completely" forgot about wc3 altogether. Sure they'll keep an eye on it, but not as much as they are now ... and even now they arn'r watching too well.

 

[BlargHonk]

That makes no sense

Billy isn't CEO of Micro anymore

 

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[Kwaliti]

Right there, above you.

 

[Squiggy]

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[Ramsey]

So is the virus gone yet?

Can we start downloading maps again?

 

[Draknyte1]

dont think so.... just dl some maps and test

 

[BlargHonk]

/me is on Paranoid Mode

 

[azlier]

Battle.net maps are perfectly safe, as long as you play them online. It's a fake patch that applies every time you join Battle.net. You can still get a virus playing random maps in single player, though.

 

[BlargHonk]

I question your intelligence

 

[Ash]

Battle.net maps are perfectly safe, as long as you play them online. It's a fake patch that applies every time you join Battle.net. You can still get a virus playing random maps in single player, though.

I call your bluff.

The 'virus' won't be gone until blizzard releases a new patch.

 

[Eleandor]

I've tested it, if you log on to battle.net, starting virusmaps will make you go back to the gamescreen. So as soon as you got the minipatch, you're safe.