Read if you are worried about Verant looking processes

/anon · Post by **/anon** » Thu Aug 08, 2002 7:19 pm

Verant can look at the processes running on your computer if they want to. They have proved they could do it befor in the past with showEQ, and EQW. By law its not allowed unless you click a OK button agreeing with it. You have to know about the scanning and ok it for it to be legal.

There is a trick you can do so IF they scan for some odd reason they wont see MQ running. Rename your MacroQuest.exe file. Name it like winamp.exe or some other program... the icon will stay the same and the program still works. If you do it and look at your processes you will then see <whatever you named it>.exe running. Process scanning problem solved.

Xaanin · Post by **Xaanin** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 4:56 am

Umm, sorry but agreeing to an EULA doesn't allow them to break the law, atleast not where I live...

Domosan · Post by **Domosan** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 6:06 am

They aren't actually breaking the law if they don't get caught (well they are, but you can't prove it)

/anon · Post by **/anon** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 6:37 am

[[ L124RD fixxed the quote brackets... ^.^]]

Domosan wrote:They aren't actually breaking the law if they don't get caught (well they are, but you can't prove it)

This is a simple fix to the process scanning question that people are starting to ask.

The one thing I want to know is,
WHY DO PEOPLE BITCH AND FIGHT ABOUT STUFF LIKE THIS... I POST A SIMPLE FIX TO A QUESTION PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO ASK AND PEOPLE POST THAT IM WRONG... MAYBE I AM, MAYBE IM NOT... WHO CARES...
IM JUST BEING NICE

aaearon · Post by **aaearon** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 8:52 am

/anon wrote:As Domosan said

They aren't actually breaking the law if they don't get caught (well they are, but you can't prove it)
This is a simple fix to the process scanning question that people are starting to ask.

The one thing I want to know is,
WHY DO PEOPLE BITCH AND FIGHT ABOUT STUFF LIKE THIS... I POST A SIMPLE FIX TO A QUESTION PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO ASK AND PEOPLE POST THAT IM WRONG... MAYBE I AM, MAYBE IM NOT... WHO CARES...
IM JUST BEING NICE

Wouldnt your information be no good if it was wrong?

roguish · Post by **roguish** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 10:25 am

Thanks for reminding us of this fix /anon.

It was very nice of you.

Rogue

Xaanin · Post by **Xaanin** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 11:39 am

Anon: A fix for a problem that doesn't exist. They can't really prove that you click the I Agree button in the first place so it doesn't matter much and there is easier and much more legal ways for them to find MQ...

/anon · Post by **/anon** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 4:29 pm

Xaanin do you read

I never once said there was anything in the EULA about this subject
And use your head, if they added a 2nt window like the EULA where you have to click a OK button to play the game, that would prove that you agreed to it as soon as you hit the character selection screen...

In your last post you said,

so it doesn't matter much and there is easier and much more legal ways for them to find MQ...

It seems to me that your saying, Well there is other ways for them to get me, there for I wont take a very simple step to give them one less option.

I would love to see the security on your home computer... its probably wide open, do to the fact, someone in the world can hack you so why bother locking it down at all...

Or do you leave your car unlocked do to the fact Someone can steal it so why bother locking it in the first place

wodandieus · Post by **wodandieus** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 5:28 am

For one thing, it's not against the law for them to scan your computer at will. Both the Gator Corporation and Brilliant Digital Entertainment settled that in federal court.

A question, a request. From the posts here you are giving the idea that you can log into EQ without clicking on the EULA agreement. If this is possible would someone post how?

Domosan · Post by **Domosan** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 6:39 am

Ummm...I wasn't saying you were wrong, I was simply being sarcastic about Verant and their Big Brother complex.

sheesh, learn to take a joke

Xaanin · Post by **Xaanin** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 4:10 am

Nevermind

If you truly believe Verant will scan your computer then feel free to change anything you want, it's your computer after all...

RPZip · Post by **RPZip** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 11:38 pm

A quick how-to on avoiding signing the EULA.

1) Copy file liscense.txt, and put it in another folder.
2) Run EQ patcher
3) Open your copied liscense.txt, and delete everything.
4) When EQ patcher finishes running, put the modified liscense.txt in the main EQ folder, overwriting what's there.
5) Run EQ.

Probably not the clearest soultion (I'm tired), but you get the idea. You overwrite the file after EQ checks it.

Xaanin · Post by **Xaanin** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 2:12 am

RPZip wrote:A quick how-to on avoiding signing the EULA.

1) Copy file liscense.txt, and put it in another folder.
2) Run EQ patcher
3) Open your copied liscense.txt, and delete everything.
4) When EQ patcher finishes running, put the modified liscense.txt in the main EQ folder, overwriting what's there.
5) Run EQ.

Probably not the clearest soultion (I'm tired), but you get the idea. You overwrite the file after EQ checks it.

Assuming the above works, the short version would be:

1. Erase contents of license.txt
2. Use EQW

L124RD · Post by **L124RD** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 1:16 pm

Salutations,
Unless you have EQW run the patcher...

Java · Post by **Java** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 9:39 pm

Just because im play EQ to be Paranoid, doesn't mean they arn't out to ban me from my obsession