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Secrets posted on Reddit today how P1999 detection system worked here
Interesting read.
Interesting read.
Secrets said:heh, this P1999 thing keeps ending up on reddit. I used to be a developer there, and a developer on EQEmulator. The story you are about to read is pretty screwed up.
I was removed from the project about 3 months ago for releasing personal details on a person who was spamming our forums with porn and gore. While I can see why that happened, the backlash and public outcry from the community was half in my favor, half not.
Let's put it this way: I logged on EQEmulator IRC to the coders channel for the first time in a month, and was instantly g-lined for 'creating hacks for p1999', which is a falsehood and slander. If anything, Project 1999 should be ashamed for doing far worse than I have ever done.
dsetup.dll is a fake DirectX upgrade assistant for the EverQuest client. Most PCs don't detect it as a virus because it is a third party library, well, that and it's packed with Themida. You wanna know what it does? Well, first and foremost it provides classic fixes. Adds an extra texture back for skeletons, prevents the new tradeskill UI from showing up, etc, amongst other things. But wait, there's more.
This rogue dll also is their anti-cheat. It encrypts spawn packets, detects popular cheating programs such as MQ2, and, get this, collects your window titles, your process list, computer name, network interface devices, and other potentially personally identifiable information.
Now, I posted that their suspicion about what it collects on the popular guild website which is known for discrediting P1999 in all of their social endeavors, which is Fires of Heaven. I didn't think it would be bad at the time, but then I logged into EQEmulator IRC to be GLined by an old friend for 'creating hacks' for p1999, that guy was Rogean.
When asked about what the motive was behind banning me, it was because I constantly put myself in bad situations and that I would be ending up with unwanted scenarios each time. The real motive behind collecting this data for extended periods of time is unknown; some say it's real-money trade which I personally think is bullshit; when I was in power I did not hear of any of this, though it could've been hidden from me, just like the fact that someone had access to cellphone logs of every person in the US available to them and they allegedly used that to call a person who I had only contacted before that actually DID make p1999 hacks, who is Itchybottom.
The moral of this story is, if you play on this server, you better damn do it in a VM. I am not responsible for what happens to you and I hate to trouble the only EverQuest post on reddit for ~5months with this bullshit drama.