Watch out for unauthorized mod mirrors!

Banshee

All community mods we've heard are done for free, for the sake of fun of everyone, with a lot of hard effort. Here we had several releases. While some mod leaders prefer to have their mod hosted only on their own site, others doesn't mind, as long as they are informed about it.

Today, I've heard of a site that I prefer to not link here, although you can read about it HERE, that is distributing mods from Revora, C-GEN, SavageWar, Strategy X and other communities without authorization, and the worse, the mods over there comes with virus. Tools like TibEd and FinalAlert with virus are also available there. The YR patch over there is also infected. No PPM material was found over there.

Of course it's an insult for everyone to have their mods mirrored with a virus.

So, avoid these sites, since you cannot rely on their contents, on their commitement to provide the best, updated and safest content for you. If you find a site using unauthorized content, denounce it for the leader(s) from the affected mod(s), tool(s), map(s) or any of those who work on it.

If you are running a site and you wanna host mods, maps and other contents, make sure you have the authorization of those who worked on it. It's always good to recognize people for their hard effort and there is no cost on doing it.

Regarding that site, some people are already contacting their host to close it down.

THE Protagonist · Commander **Joined**: 19 Apr 2006 **Location**: The Etto

what A holes, i suggest hacking there site so that when they go to edit it they get slamed with all there own vireses Smile

DEATH TO THEM A HOLES!!!!

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Banshee · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 9:49 pm Post subject:

You don't need to stoop down at their level.

CCHyper · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Apr 2005

all the person has to do is eather link to the hosted site or email th mod creator..... but no.... oh well.

Renegade · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:20 am Post subject:

Well, not infecting everything with viruses and providing the latest versions instead of years-old ones would also be nice.

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mice16 · Pyro Sniper **Joined**: 26 Jul 2005

*TV flashes on*
"... and we are proud to bring you Todays Execution on behalf of the brotherhood." "That's right! This traitor is a webmaster of an insult to the intellectual property of the brotherhood." "One vision, one purpose!"... *screams of agony and pain ensues...*

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Renegade · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:48 pm Post subject:

"In the name of Kane!"
"Kane lives in death!"

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Zodiac · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject:

Please , don't spam.

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Anderwin · General **Joined**: 16 May 2005

lets kills this people =D

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Apex · Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 12:16 pm Post subject:

Violence isn't the answer, let us hire a hitman.
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Well actually, I think that we should tell all the other actuall C&C modding sites if they don't already know.

Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

I think there should be a 'sercurity' system which prevents linking. Well, I don't have a clue if that's possilbe.

Titan · Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 1:12 pm Post subject:

Umm, I don't think so. And if you can download it, you can upload it (after you've messed with it) anyhow. It's sad to see that people start doing things like this to mod files. It's crazy, but... We're attracting attention. It seems that mods (and thus modding) for C&C games are getting more and more popular, especially with the rather large amount of unfinished mods that have shows high-class quality.

Oshog

Fuctard. True Fucktard.

Apex · Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 5:42 pm Post subject:

I don't think that is appropriate language and I think that is spamming.

Tyler Adams · Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 1:06 am Post subject:

Renegade wrote:

"In the name of Kane!"
"Kane lives in death!"

Kane.. LIVES!

#Tongue

That's just.. stupid.. sad.. those people need more work.

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- geno - · Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 2:24 am Post subject:

Destiny wrote:

I think there should be a 'sercurity' system which prevents linking. Well, I don't have a clue if that's possilbe.

i know some sites use some anti-leeching script prevent users direct download from address bar. it somewhat masks the file...

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Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

Masks the file?

John Galt · Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 4:12 am Post subject:

They check the HTTP_REFERER field, which usually has the address of the page you came from. If that field doesn't match the site, boom, access denied. Simple to create, simple to bypass.

Other methods exist, including dynamically generated random URLs, but none are totally reliable. You can't really be sure whether a user is that is downloading the file came from your site or from elsewhere.

Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

I see...

SeySayux · Cyborg Specialist **Joined**: 21 Jun 2005

In case they have a domain (no subdomain) you can trace them...

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Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

Then...you're caught. Laughing

John Galt · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 3:50 am Post subject:

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In case they have a domain (no subdomain) you can trace them...

So you're saying that I cannot trace randomsite.ppmsite.com or mo.cncguild.net because they are subdomains? Wow, good thing nobody told me that cause I just went and did. Rolling Eyes

Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

Well it does help to trace them right?