[Info]HackShield and PunkBuster Features
HackShield Features
- Memory Hacking Protection - Prevents memory excess of game hacking
- Speed Hack Protection - Detects and blocks speed hack programs that tempers with system timer
- Debugger Protection - Blocks hacker's debugging tools for auditing and analysis of code
- Message Hook Protection - Makes message hooking function of game hacking tools useless and obsolete
- Auto-mouse Protection - Blocks auto mouse operation, making it ineffective in games
- File Change and Forgery Protection - Detects and blocks changes or forgery of files
- Hacking tools and blocking detection - Detects hacking tools and terminates client game connection from server
- Run-time Forgery Protection - Prevents from forging runtime modules of HackShield
- Executable File Packing - Protects HackShield, hacking protection functions, itself from hacking
- Network Packet Encryption - Encrypts network packet in NIST Rijndael AES format
- Data File Encryption - Encrypts data files passed between client and server
- Server-side Crack Protection - Regularly checks for changes or forges of executable file at client
- Executable File Encryption - Encrypts game executables in real-time
- Consistent and Continuous Update - Updates with new hacking tool pattern files and protection modules
PunkBuster Features
- Real-time scanning of memory, a feature also prominent in many spyware programs, by placing a PunkBuster Client on players' computers searching for known hacks/cheats using a built-in database.
- Throttled two-tiered background auto-update system using multiple Internet Master Servers to provide end-user security ensuring that no false or corrupted updates can be installed on players' computers.
- Frequent status reports (encrypted) are sent to the PunkBuster Server by all players. When necessary, the PunkBuster Server raises a violation which (depending upon settings) will cause the offending player to be removed from the game and all other players to be informed of the violation.
- PunkBuster Admins can also manually remove players from the game for a specified number of minutes or permanently ban if desired.
- PunkBuster Servers can optionally be configured to randomly check player settings looking for known exploits of the game engine.
- PunkBuster Servers can be configured to instruct clients to calculate partial MD5 hashes of files inside the game installation directory. The results are compared against a set configuration and differences logged, and optionally, the client removed from the server.
- PunkBuster Admins can request actual screenshot samples from specific players and/or can configure the PB Server to randomly grab screenshot samples from players during gameplay. However, it is possible for a game hack to block screenshots (producing a black screenshot) or remove all visual features of a hack (cleaning the screenshot) to remain undetected, leaving the effectiveness of this feature diminished.
- An optional "bad name" facility is provided so that PunkBuster Admins can prevent players from using offensive player names containing unwanted profanity or racial slurs.
- Search functions are provided for PunkBuster Admins who wish to search player's keybindings and scripts for anything that may be known to exploit the game.
- The PunkBuster Player Power facility can be configured to allow players to self-administer game servers when the Server Administrator is not present entirely without the need for passwords, in which the players can call votes to have a player removed from the server for a certain amount of time.
- PunkBuster Servers have an optional built-in mini HTTP web server interface that allows the game server to be remotely administered via a web browser from anywhere over the Internet.
- PunkBuster Admins can stream their server logs in real time to another location. Non-profit organizations like Anti-Cheat Inc, Airdale Ops Network, PunksBusted, PBBans and AASA are examples of groups that use this feature to create shared banlists for their members.
- PunkBuster has initiated Punkbuster Hardware Bans, that bans hardware components upon detection of cheats that disrupt or circumvent PunkBuster's normal operation. These bans mean permanently banning players whose HD id matches the blacklist at Evenbalance. The cheat will have to buy a whole new hard drive to be able to play again.
Well discuss which one of the two chosen "Anti-Hacking software would be better. And please don't just reply like this
PB is better, enuff said!
Hackshield is better, enuff said!
Originally Posted by KingDot
