MAC BAN people in a Flash game

Question

My name is CM Sulaco, I am a community manager at Kixeye Gaming (War Commander) We have ran into a lot of trouble with cheaters using Cheat Engine (Memory Modifier) and similar tools.

I am inquiring as to whether there is a way to MAC ban a player who cheats, if so how would this be achieved in a Adobe Flash game?

Thanks for any help given!

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

If you create a function that fires when someone is caught cheating, you could try something like this or this to get the user's MAC address when they cheat, and send it to a table in a database, and subsequently kick them, and ban the user.

Something like this could work:

CREATE TABLE `bannedUsers` (
  `id` int(6) unsigned NOT NULL,
  `username` varchar(19) NOT NULL,
  `time` varchar(70) NOT NULL,
  `macAddress` varchar(40) NOT NULL,
  `cheatInstance` varchar(19) NOT NULL
)
ALTER TABLE `bannedUsers`
ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`);
ALTER TABLE `bannedUsers`
MODIFY `id` int(6) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,AUTO_INCREMENT=1;

Then, when the user/s login, the system could search the database for a matching MAC address.

SELECT * FROM `bannedUsers` WHERE `macAddress`='(hacker mac address here)';

And then do a count on whether the row count returned is zero.

MAC BAN people in a Flash game

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