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The reasoning behind the latest bans/terminations is not because of the HALO2 leak. It's mostly because of a certain live 'exploit' you could say that allowed users to connect to the service with a backup... Since this flaw is now fixed with the latest security updates Let me explain.
As most of you know there exists HDD-Flagged versions of game executables. These files are sent down by the MS service when a game engine needs updated or bugs need fixed. Users were taking these special XBE's and placing them on the hard drive as 'xboxdash.xbe' on the 'C' Partition. Now you might think to yourself, how is this going to allow them to run the game when only the XBE file is located on the drive. Well, turns out if you place a backup of the game in the dvd-rom and then place this XBE as 'xboxdash.xbe' the xbe will be launched due to the correct signatures and then the files willl be accessed from the DVD-Rom. In conclusion, what do you have? A backup running on live. I wouldn't advise anyone to attempt this because it will result in a ban and will not connect to the service any longer because of what is being checked. You can verify this was working at one time via the link in the first post of this thread.
This brings me to my next point. In order for them to detect this they have to be checking the xboxdash.xbe file on the /c/ partition. That would be the only way of detecting this besides scannign what partition your running the XBE file from when you connect to the service.
Furthermore, this could be what is *Mysteriously* causing these bans. People are leaving a modified xboxdash.xbe file on the drive and connecting to the service with what they thought to be a retail state.
Anyhow, I hope this provides some people with a bit more info on what is happening and how to prevent it. |
Well, after much time spent fooling around and toying with things I have discovered that instead of banning the Serial Number/Mac Addy they are in fact banning the HDD Key that your HDD is locked with.
If you don't trust this info to be true, take your banned eeprom and place the HDD Key of a valid, unbanned eeprom in it's configuration. Don't forget to relock your hard drive of course. I have had my box unbanned and running live for almost a week now. That includes running Halo 2. If others could test this and give me some feedback on boxes other than mine it would be great.
I mainly shared this info to prove that they are in no way banning Hard Drives. I've been using the same hard drive since day one of XBL. Numerous Bans and account terminations yet I'm back on with a completely retail hard disk and new HDD Key(EEPROM).
Any questions/comments please direct them to this thread. I'd be more than happy to try and answer things here rather than by PM.
Anyhow, just as the news states...
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Angerwound sent us new information about the new Xbox LIVE banning system.
Apparently MS is now only banning the HDD-Key and not the Serial
Number/Mac Address of the EEprom as before. This means that you do not
need a whole new EEprom to get unbanned, but only a valid and non-banned
HDD-Key.
So if your Xbox got banned you can unban it by unlocking your HD, change
the HDD-Key in your EEprom (using configmagic or other EEprom tools)
with a unbanned one from another EEprom (you can't just use a random key
- it must be a valid one from a retail box), then just relock your HD and
your Xbox will be unbanned. Even using an old banned EEprom and change it
with an unbanned HDD-Key, will allow you to connect on LIVE. This has been
tested for over a week and the xbox is still not banned. The box in question
has been banned several times before as well as had it's live account
terminated. Angerwound even tested it by putting random information on all
other paramaters except the HDD-Key and it connected fine on LIVE.
This could have a great deal to do with why people are randomly getting banned now.
They had previously been using a valid serial number/Mac address but now
the authentication servers do not want to validate their HDD Key.
The above information tells you how to get unbanned, but if you don't change
anything to your setup it's likely you'll get banned again of course. At
this moment we don't know yet what MS is all checking to ban an Xbox...
However, they are probably checking several things on the HD. So best thing
you can do is to use your MS retail and unotuched (no homebrew/hacked
files) HD (don't forget to also unlock/relock it with the new key) to
connect on LIVE. |
This post has been edited by Angerwound: Dec 15 2004, 05:21 AM
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