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Anti-cheating in software and video-gaming aims to prevent tactics such as add-ons or exploits that give players an unfair advantage. Game developers and third party software developers have created technologies that attempt to prevent cheating.

Anti-cheating in software and video-gaming aims to prevent tactics such as add-ons or exploits that give players an unfair advantage. Game developers and third party software developers have created technologies that attempt to prevent cheating. Anti-cheat software is commonly used in popular games such as Team Fortress 2, Quake, or World of Warcraft. A few examples of anti-cheat software are DMW Anticheat, GameGuard, PunkBuster, VAC, ProtectEnviron, ShoxGuard, CleanDoD, XRay, xTrap, HackShield, Warden or BattlEye. The Terms of Service for many games directly prohibits cheating activity.

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How does CheatEngine's speed hack work?

Cheat Engine comes with a feature called speed hack which basically can slow down or increase speed of the game. Actually, not only games, if there is a software with clock ticking it can speed-en up that too. How does that work? I might imagine…
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How to prevent cheating in our (multiplayer) games?

If you are writing a game you should think about cheaters and how to prevent them from cheating. I don't think only the mmo multiplayer games but also singleplayer or "home-brewed" p2p mp games too. When the game is based on completely a…
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Detecting an online poker cheat

It recently emerged on a large poker site that some players were possibly able to see all opponents cards as they played through exploiting a security vulnerability that was discovered. A naïve cheater would win at an incredibly fast rate, and these…
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How to prevent Rooted Android Phones from Installing my app?

The purpose in this context is to prevent false high scores(my app is a game) from being reported in LeaderBoard. This occurred for Flappy Birds - see this link - …
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How to secure client-side anti-cheat

First, I want to indicate that I know that any information sent from the client cannot be trusted as it can be spoofed. I am interested in methods of security through obscurity to deter 99.9% of potential cheaters and ability to detect programs…
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How to prevent cheating with Gamecih?

Background I've had problems for quite a while now with players cheating in my android game. For a strict single-player game this wouldn't be a big issue, but since my game contains multiplayer battles and global highscore lists, it's causing legit…
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How can I locally detect iPhone clock advancement by a user between app runs?

A common exploit in casual games is to artificially advance the system clock to jump ahead in gameplay. How can such user clock advancement be detected by an app on an iOS device? Must not involve network communication Must not assume app is open…
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Preventing "Time Change" Cheating in Game

Possible Duplicate: Is there a clock in iOS that can be used that cannot be changed by the user I know in many iOS games that have tasks that take time (i.e. "10 hours until animal done breeding"), one can go into "Settings" and change the time…
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Networking problems in games

I am looking for networking designs and tricks specific to games. I know about a few problems and I have some partial solutions to some of them but there can be problems I can't see yet. I think there is no definite answer to this but I will accept…
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Does HTML 5 Gaming use Canvas and Javascript? How to prevent cheating in this case?

Does HTML 5 Gaming use Canvas and Javascript? How to prevent cheating in this case? For instance, what if a user uses GreaseMonkey or some tool to alter the script so that it just reports a perfect game score to the server every time?
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Cheat Prevention by Code Generation

Will this anti cheat technique work for a multiplayer game using private servers (publicly unknown executable): When the client starts the game it will auto update itself daily (using a launcher). The Servers will update themselves, too. Unless…
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Block users using auto-clickers

I'm having some problems with users cheating my online game by using macros to automatically click certain spots on the screen in a certain order to automate various tasks without having to actually be playing the game. Are there any methods that…
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cheat prevention for browser based xmlhttp/js/perl/php game

Lets say that in a browser based game, completing some action (for simplicity lets say someone clicks on a link that increases their score by 100) clicking on this link which would have a url for example increase_score.pl?amount=100 what kind of…
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Reliable time difference in the iOS environment

I am working on a casual game with some improvement over time, much like TinyTower. But the biggest flaw in TinyTower (and all respect, its a cute game) is that cheating is too easy. The game relies on the device time, so when it says that "this is…
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Antivirus process kill prevention?

I was searching around in regards how to prevent an application from being killed but haven't really found an answer that describes how it works for antivirus applications for example. What I am looking forward to do is a tool (similar to Gameguard,…
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