So I used to play on the SCHT private PSO/BB server, and I started up again. Well, unfortunately it seems they've added some anti-hack protection that scans all processes for certain key words or phrases and then kills them.

So yeah, I can't browse gbatemp with the game up without the game outright terminating the browser. :\ Hell, googling some stuff involving android kills it. I even had it killed repeatedly trying to load up a certain porn pic on a website...

And upon posting a thread on the forums asking them to whitelist browsers...



So yeah. Are there any other servers for PSO/BB that are still running WITHOUT asshole anti-hack practices?

 

Yeah the antihack stuff doesn't start up until the login process is done.

Yeah it's definitely new. I used to be able to run certain programs and tools in the background while sitting around in-game feeding my mag, but now various debugging tools are killed on sight.

I'm not happy about it one bit either, especially since the AP doesn't actually stop the game from being modified (since they're just working with the binaries for the client, not having source access). This seems to just fight against script kiddies googling for cheat engine tutorials and crap, it was trivial to attach a debugger once I tried.

The game successfully runs in sandboxie without freaking out over other programs that are running, thanks! Didn't even think of segregating the programs like that...

That said the client does like to crash still with an incorrectly-encoded foreign message whenever a UAC prompt comes up... I don't remember if it did that before they added antihack.dll to it, but oh well, that can be avoided too.