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Subject: Halo 1 PC 1.08 has released
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18th August/19th August on Halo v1.08

One of our clan servers, received attacks tonight. Nothing major. But intended and were no coincidence to the events that were happening that evening. Seems like the poor kid was having fun thats for sure...
One of my clan's servers received attacks from a player and caused it to repeatedly close down. Im not sure exactly what security flaws were fixed from 1.07. But the new patch appears to not have fully fixed the whole security thing (if thats what was intended, i dont know).

I have no doubt my leaders are looking into this server-side.
Any advice or knowledge would be much appreciated that i can pass on.

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bfm_octane@hotmail.co.uk

  • 08.18.2008 7:16 PM PDT

H1 and Halo Custom edition name: madkiller92
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I don't see any severs getting crashed at all...

And your clan is a bit hypocritical and can unfairly ban people, I can imagine people wanting to crash BFM.

And when is that 2-year-old Ban my little brother got me going to be lifted?

  • 08.18.2008 8:34 PM PDT
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Hehe, cant help you with your opinion of the clan, lad. Sorry.

As for your ban... Youve asked the wrong person.

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  • 08.19.2008 10:10 AM PDT

idk how they did the patch... but I don't think they can prevent people from actually DoS'ng your servers... so that's just gonna be there :(

  • 08.19.2008 5:58 PM PDT
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Ah. Not too clued up on all that so was a tad concerned. Quite sure the rest of the guys over here are familiar with that sort of thing though since speaking to them. Thanx for getting back to me on this anyway. :)

[Edited on 08.19.2008 6:56 PM PDT]

  • 08.19.2008 6:55 PM PDT
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There's a list for working and non-working Halo apps now. Sorry if it's already posted.

  • 08.19.2008 10:28 PM PDT
Subject: Possible DoS Exploit
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As has been observed by Railziel, they may already be another DoS attack for 1.08.

Last night someone came on the server, announced what he was going to do, and then lagged and crashed the server. By server, I mean Halo, not the server platform itself.

So far there has been no repeat that I know of.

[Edited on 08.20.2008 2:38 PM PDT]

  • 08.20.2008 2:36 PM PDT
Subject: Halo 1 PC 1.08 has released
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I cannot congratulate Bungie and Microsoft enough for providing a patch for one of the most insidious bots that ever graced the game. It was a long time commin and I just figured Microsoft and Bungie cared less about halopc. I am the author of jDar. I didnt write it to devalue the game, it was already devalued due to a couple common aimbots produced for it (inside job? yeah). My son introduced me to halo. What a game. But we got quite pissed off a few years ago at the redundent one kill headshots (bot). So we didnt play for quite awhile. Next time I got on the game, it was over. Bots, wireframes, speed hacks, pffft. I dont know how such a big company could let a game get so out of hand.. but it did. I dont bot, I play heavy rooms just cause of bots. I wrote jDar to level the field. To make sure if one was cheating.. then all can have the cheat. Been in a sniper room lately? Obviously Microsoft nor Bungie has. Cheatin bastids. Whatever. I introduced jDar for 2 reasons. #1.. I need a job. #2.. to ligitimaize halopc. Im plesanly suprised to find u guys patched bitterbannannas code. I think theres still some more bots out there.. but the one (and the code I had) was pretty old and Im surprised u didn’t nip that f'er earlier. Just glad u did. Ty guys for remembering the game. It was a 10 star game when it came out. Im gettin ready to fire it up and see if how many stars it has left.

  • 08.22.2008 11:34 PM PDT
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heyyy.... it cut me off. i said sincerely Jim lol

  • 08.22.2008 11:35 PM PDT
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dang i still didnt get it right. But why it cut me off i dont know. At the end of my first post i said 'sincerely, Jim' but it didnt go thru. Sorry.. i rarely post anywhere. So this is all really new to me lol

  • 08.22.2008 11:41 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

Posted by: Riff
I cannot congratulate Bungie and Microsoft enough for providing a patch for one of the most insidious bots that ever graced the game. It was a long time commin and I just figured Microsoft and Bungie cared less about halopc. I am the author of jDar. I didnt write it to devalue the game, it was already devalued due to a couple common aimbots produced for it (inside job? yeah). My son introduced me to halo. What a game. But we got quite pissed off a few years ago at the redundent one kill headshots (bot). So we didnt play for quite awhile. Next time I got on the game, it was over. Bots, wireframes, speed hacks, pffft. I dont know how such a big company could let a game get so out of hand.. but it did. I dont bot, I play heavy rooms just cause of bots. I wrote jDar to level the field. To make sure if one was cheating.. then all can have the cheat. Been in a sniper room lately? Obviously Microsoft nor Bungie has. Cheatin bastids. Whatever. I introduced jDar for 2 reasons. #1.. I need a job. #2.. to ligitimaize halopc. Im plesanly suprised to find u guys patched bitterbannannas code. I think theres still some more bots out there.. but the one (and the code I had) was pretty old and Im surprised u didn’t nip that f'er earlier. Just glad u did. Ty guys for remembering the game. It was a 10 star game when it came out. Im gettin ready to fire it up and see if how many stars it has left.


The goal of the patch was never to disable any of the bots. It was just a bonus. In due time, those bots will be working again, and all the kids will figure out how to get another pirated version of the game.

Btw, I don't understand how making another cheat to level the playing field solves anything. If you are cheating at a game, then you aren't playing for the right reasons. Cheating to try to out cheat other cheaters is freaking pathetic.

  • 08.25.2008 11:41 AM PDT
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The bots were updated just shortly after 1.08 was released and they became widely available within 5 days. But with the new version switchers that have been released, you can now use pretty much all of the 1.07 programs in 1.08. Ive already caught & banned 6 botters in 1.08 including {ltd}Tidus.

@Riff--> Your story goes like this: You got owned in Halo so you cried bot. You then made your own program to cheat so you could raise your self esteem and seem good. Then finally you come on here, after failing to read what the 1.08 patch actually addressed, and wrote a nice little letter on how you "stuck it" to those low life cheaters by making your own cheat.
Do us all a favor Riff, quit making cheat programs and stay away from Halo because your only going to get owned again.

[Edited on 08.25.2008 2:35 PM PDT]

  • 08.25.2008 2:34 PM PDT
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I own the free trial. When my dad buys me the full version, I'll download both the patch & the deticated server

  • 08.26.2008 10:10 AM PDT

so there is a new attack out? this does explain why our clans servers have been lagging people out so bad. closing down, etc. we did figure we were being attacked. but didnt want to jump to a conclusion. due to no other cases. now that i see this tho.

  • 08.27.2008 5:00 PM PDT

well if anyone knows where the attack download is, i know someone who can decompile it, and possibly make a anti tool of it, or at least a tracker/detector

[Edited on 08.27.2008 5:06 PM PDT]

  • 08.27.2008 5:05 PM PDT
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DoS attacks aint coming from a specific program for Halo if thats what you mean by "attack download", JABLES. DoS attacks are a more generalized attack across the internet, not just Halo game servers. Not something a halo patch can fix (or so it seems).

  • 08.28.2008 2:44 PM PDT

well i know that much. but maybe the correct way to ask is the source. my programming friends want to try to find a way to detect when its being attacked. and locate the source. they might be able to do it, they are currently working on a anti aimbot for halo. records them botting, then bans them. but no promises it will work tho, but on this attacks, they might be able to help prevent the attacks, and if they do find a way, we will share it publicly. well not prevent but locate, and help keep them down to minimum.

[Edited on 08.28.2008 3:00 PM PDT]

  • 08.28.2008 2:59 PM PDT
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Hey sawnose, I am very appreciative for this patch and have been running it on my server since it's (official) release. So far no problems from the previous hacks. However, I have a question regarding the strings.dll file.

When you first released your unofficial post-1.07 patch (which was GREATLY APPRECIATED by the way) you had also made available a new version of the strings.dll file, yet the official 1.08 patch did not. For our dedicated servers, are we supposed to revert back to the previous dll file or use the one from the unofficial patch? Or, does it even make any difference?

I apologize if this question has been asked and answered already. If it has, I could not find it anywhere.

Thank you again for all of your efforts!! :-)

-Never2Old (to play HaloPC!)

  • 08.28.2008 9:01 PM PDT
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cool

  • 08.29.2008 1:38 PM PDT

ok, this attack is bad, we need to find a way to prevent it, we are paying good money for our servers, and someone has to be immature and childish and attack the servers. does anyone know of something to stop/prevent/ or slow the attacks down, we get full servers and someone attacks us.

  • 08.30.2008 1:11 PM PDT

Wake Up John.

awesome game. thanks for the patch.

  • 08.31.2008 10:02 PM PDT
Subject: There Is A Catch....

This update wile it eliminates the Cd check for Custom Edition it also gives you an exception every time you use 3rd Person or Fly Cam. Please fix this as i want to make a machinima some time or do some third person game play.

  • 08.31.2008 10:04 PM PDT

hey, i can help you with the 3rd person thing. the patch just disabled some stuff for Halo pc. and had to be remade. just look here www.modacity.net there are apps made for 1.08 or there is a version changer, just tricks your client to think your running something else. still can join 1.08 games tho.

  • 09.01.2008 8:28 AM PDT
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Posted by: Anton P Nym
who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

Posted by: Kira Onime
Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

Posted by: RYNO X12
This update wile it eliminates the Cd check for Custom Edition it also gives you an exception every time you use 3rd Person or Fly Cam. Please fix this as i want to make a machinima some time or do some third person game play.


Bungie has no obligation to fix a third-party hack.

  • 09.01.2008 8:41 AM PDT
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Posted by: RYNO X12
This update wile it eliminates the Cd check for Custom Edition it also gives you an exception every time you use 3rd Person or Fly Cam. Please fix this as i want to make a machinima some time or do some third person game play.


I don't have that problem

  • 09.01.2008 11:41 AM PDT