ESL CS Ladders On Hold

Posted by Myers at 14:15 27/12/2004.

The Electronic Sports League have put all their Counter-Strike ladders on hold due to the widespread circulation of software that prevents detections by anti-cheating client, Cheating Death.

This news is the latest in a series of cheating revelations to plague the league in the past week. Just a few days ago ESL admins announced that they had discovered a method of detecting those that used the banned Mosquito-ESP software.

The coder included a small function which places a Water-Mark on each Screenshot, easily discoverable as black Edges on the right and bottom of each Picture.
With ESP-Wallhack here.
Without ESP-Wallhack here
Directly after gaining knowledge of this information a number of Admins and Users started to search the Ladders where many matches could be found. At the moment there are more than 30 players barred due to cheating violation and a great number of open cases which will be processed soon. Some examples for these players are the two top rankings in the German CS 1on1 EAS and some top rankings in the normal 1on1 ladder in Germany.

Fortunately the latest version of Cheating Death detected this cheat and the issue was laid to rest. However, news posted on the ESL site yesterday brings much sadder news:

From the current point onwards we see ourselves being forced to stop the Counter-Strike Ladders completely. At the moment there is a program in circulation that completely stops the detections of Cheating-Death and makes all known cheats unrecognizable by the program.
Because of this cracked version of Cheating-Death making it possible for all unidentified Cheats, we have been forced to close all Counter-Strike Ladders until further notice and upon clarifying the state of affairs they will not reopen. By this, all possibilities to create a match are affected like the manual challenge, Instant Challenger and the Auto challenger.

With any luck, quick-thinking and fast-fingered software bods will be able to counter such nuisances setting the ESL back on track for a bright 2005.

Comments

	dhh 14:50 27/12/2004	Myers you can write an essay from a couple of lines of information. Next time just copy and paste and enjoy your christmas instead :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 14:52 27/12/2004	I take great delight from forcing you all to read through my essays thus wasting your christmas! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dhh 15:03 27/12/2004	lol i didnt read it [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	t0x Void 15:04 27/12/2004	lol to much work reading all that :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Pimpboy feo 15:12 27/12/2004	so all you cheating death lovers have just been f***ed in the arse [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	adren 15:15 27/12/2004	no because unlike vac, cd will be updated... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	$aVa$ ImaGine 15:16 27/12/2004	Next C-D update will fix it. And uall said it takes him more than 2 hours to "rehack" new versions and that he won't release updates for CD4 anymore. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	siLki 15:32 27/12/2004	http://server3.uploadit.org/files/siLkiiii-CDD.jpg badabingbadaboooooooooooooooooooooooom [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MadSpunk Last Chance 15:35 27/12/2004	dang :[ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MonkH 15:50 27/12/2004	says on the cd site average time for cd to update is 72hours so lets play the waiting game and find out :> [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	toko euthanasia 15:51 27/12/2004	on my screenshots its got a black line all the way around..... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ShekkyBoy 16:21 27/12/2004	You probably have the game's resolution set below your monitor's native resolution then, toko. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	qloudZ- 16:29 27/12/2004	.....or you hack. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dL Atari.Crew 17:36 27/12/2004	adren 15:15 27/12/2004 no because unlike vac, cd will be updated... --- lol [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	NukeD virtual Junkies 17:42 27/12/2004	...dL it will be [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Sunman^ 17:49 27/12/2004	yea I have that too toko. just means your playign with a diff res in game than you set your monitors freq.... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dL Atari.Crew 18:32 27/12/2004	yes I know it will be nuked... just liked the way he put it [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	enc\|mike 20:12 27/12/2004	the CD Coders say they wont re-code CD 4.0 for this Cheat and that people "may" have to wait until CD 5.0 which is about 3 months away. :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MonkH 21:38 27/12/2004	wheres say that mike? i wanna go stab em in the face :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	enc\|mike 22:11 27/12/2004	inside info MonkH :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ThEGforcE 23:49 27/12/2004	shame as playing games on CD servers was amazing 1st games ive pld for ages where people run past ya if ur behind a box and actually dont exactley know where u r constantley. Every 1 seemed to be so much worst than they normally are even dicked geo and some of his smiles buddy's would that of happened on a vac server?? ahaha yeh right [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	N3M- endeffect 23:52 27/12/2004	roll on all the accuasions about EVERYONE :) will these hacks show up in csgn screenshots? curious..gonna go check :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ThEGforcE 23:56 27/12/2004	the black border around screenshots only apply to a hack called mosquito this was the only CD proof hack for a while i dont even think its made for vac ESL = uses CD so only hack ppl could use is mosquito hence all the ppl with black borders csgn = vac so basically people wouldnt use a CD hack so u wont see no screenshots with a black border [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Pimpboy feo 00:49 28/12/2004	what gaz said [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	nicklearse Missing In Action 05:59 28/12/2004	1337 [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	enc\|mike 06:12 28/12/2004	VAC is laughable though for 1.6. If i worked for Valve i wouldnt go home to my family and friends saying i was a VAC Tech tbh. Prolly get firebombed by some random 14 year old. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	JediBitch fightclubclan 07:31 28/12/2004	i cant see any difference in those 2 pics :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Pimpboy feo 08:12 28/12/2004	the border of the screenshot [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	JediBitch fightclubclan 09:06 28/12/2004	oh i see! i was looking for black marks inside the border lol :D btw im glad ESL r waiting until they can run a clean league, it shud be a lesson other leagues shud learn, its better to wait and have an enjoyable clean league, than rushing and putting on a piece of crap that half the clans end up leaving midseason [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	georgeda 10:36 28/12/2004	Are you updating it for newer versions of CD? - I dont think so. It will take me ~2 hours to update it and the next 2 weeks i have no time. BUT i will make lots of tutorials how YOU can make it at you own. I mailed some cheatcoders and explain how it works. Also the source will be released in the next days. For me CD 4.X died - I know all about it and I will share my information Lets look if CD 5.X will be better. --- wouldnt be so sure this is gonna go away :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DidGe Synergy Online 10:52 28/12/2004	its funny how you all know so much about cheats [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Pimpboy feo 11:43 28/12/2004	actualy geo is cleverer than he looks its just is his brain being used for the good side or the dark D: [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Valar` The Anti-DoZ 12:12 28/12/2004	another example of cheats and spotty little 15 yr olds who are SO DESPERATE to make names for themselves ruining the community for everyone else. it's about time they realised that THIS is why we hate cheats, and not simply because they cheat. if people want to cheat on a public i dont really care, i can always go to another one, but in organised games all it really achives is the collapse of a league and the end result of everyones time being wasted. which is really gay because its only a hobby for 99% of us. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ThEGforcE 13:47 28/12/2004	ladder's like clanbase are partley to blame for the cheating atm if they took a hard stance on cheats i dont think the problem would be as bad as it is today. basically u got loads of c4u wannabe's who will wallhack it online becoz wilz00 and kritikal got away with it for so long and it made them the players they are. they should of got a life ban and never of been allowed to play in any online league again. People atm know that they can toggle the old wh on and there is no consequences [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Venomous BLACKLiGHT 14:48 28/12/2004	so true [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	JediBitch fightclubclan 15:35 28/12/2004	i'd like to see some kind of ip banning.....thing :) if ur caught cheating, ur ip is added to the database and presto u cant play cs, i know not everyone has a static ip, so the ppl with dynamic ones will get away with it, but add that to steam ID bans, and CD or whatnot, and it might be ok :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	enc\|mike 16:27 28/12/2004	If u want u can ring the maker of the cheat up. just do a whois on his site and hes got his address and contact details there :) -- Hopefully, cheating won't be an issue with the ESL UK Tournament with an Admin on the server and each players demo's going through the Anti-Cheat Team for checks. /me crosses fingers. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Psy^ xtreme9.uk 19:32 28/12/2004	Lets hope the anti cheat team are competent :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Hayes- 23:22 28/12/2004	What Gaz and Jedib***h said, except instead of IP banning do it through your hardware (think its BF that does this) so that if you're caught cheating you're going to have to buy a new pc to play again. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Rigante 23:24 28/12/2004	sigh, why would he feel the need to spend so much of his time purely to destroy attempts to make online gaming a fun and fair pasttime... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	siLki 23:43 28/12/2004	WHAT? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MaCcA^ 23:45 28/12/2004	Jedib***h you can change your IP easy! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	RoMeRz 01:52 29/12/2004	I think its Americas Army or something similar that takes not of a MAC address and bans you if your caught cheating. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	JediBitch fightclubclan 07:03 29/12/2004	no idea is perfect, but it helps right? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Blinder Random Five 08:47 29/12/2004	the intention was there JB, it's just not a solid solution really, like MaCaA said - IP change is v.easy.....the idea of getting the MAC address is good, so the cheater has to get a new network card every time they want to play again....think about those who use on board LAN, or have shuttles with no PCI slots left........gonna cost you at least a tenner every time you get caught for a new NIC, or at the very least a s*** load of hassle trying to fit the damned thing where you have no space left.....maybe CD should do that, it's about 15 lines of code I think.... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	JediBitch fightclubclan 12:19 29/12/2004	im just thinking of a bigger punishment than buying a £3 copy of half life :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 13:00 29/12/2004	can u get HL for £3 now? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Valar` The Anti-DoZ 13:09 29/12/2004	i think the most promising thing atm is this sound check malarky. am i right in assuming it checks all the files in your hl directory for alterations? if so, then the next step i guess would be for a league to implement a sign-up policy whereby players allow their ENTIRE hard drives to be scanned for files, namely known cheat programs. its relatively simple to code something which will return a unique checksum value on a file which can then be checked against checksums for known cheat files. the record of this could then be saved and compared everytime u log on to server secured in this manner, which would mean you dont have to scan 50,000+ files everytime u log on, only new or altered files would be checked. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	mebR 13:33 29/12/2004	new version of CD is apparently coming out by Friday to stop CDD, yay :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	enc\|mike 20:45 29/12/2004	^^ we hope. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

	dhh 14:50 27/12/2004	Myers you can write an essay from a couple of lines of information. Next time just copy and paste and enjoy your christmas instead :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 14:52 27/12/2004	I take great delight from forcing you all to read through my essays thus wasting your christmas! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dhh 15:03 27/12/2004	lol i didnt read it [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	t0x Void 15:04 27/12/2004	lol to much work reading all that :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Pimpboy feo 15:12 27/12/2004	so all you cheating death lovers have just been f***ed in the arse [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	adren 15:15 27/12/2004	no because unlike vac, cd will be updated... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	$aVa$ ImaGine 15:16 27/12/2004	Next C-D update will fix it. And uall said it takes him more than 2 hours to "rehack" new versions and that he won't release updates for CD4 anymore. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	siLki 15:32 27/12/2004	http://server3.uploadit.org/files/siLkiiii-CDD.jpg badabingbadaboooooooooooooooooooooooom [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MadSpunk Last Chance 15:35 27/12/2004	dang :[ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MonkH 15:50 27/12/2004	says on the cd site average time for cd to update is 72hours so lets play the waiting game and find out :> [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	toko euthanasia 15:51 27/12/2004	on my screenshots its got a black line all the way around..... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ShekkyBoy 16:21 27/12/2004	You probably have the game's resolution set below your monitor's native resolution then, toko. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	qloudZ- 16:29 27/12/2004	.....or you hack. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dL Atari.Crew 17:36 27/12/2004	adren 15:15 27/12/2004 no because unlike vac, cd will be updated... --- lol [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	NukeD virtual Junkies 17:42 27/12/2004	...dL it will be [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Sunman^ 17:49 27/12/2004	yea I have that too toko. just means your playign with a diff res in game than you set your monitors freq.... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dL Atari.Crew 18:32 27/12/2004	yes I know it will be nuked... just liked the way he put it [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	enc\|mike 20:12 27/12/2004	the CD Coders say they wont re-code CD 4.0 for this Cheat and that people "may" have to wait until CD 5.0 which is about 3 months away. :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MonkH 21:38 27/12/2004	wheres say that mike? i wanna go stab em in the face :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	enc\|mike 22:11 27/12/2004	inside info MonkH :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ThEGforcE 23:49 27/12/2004	shame as playing games on CD servers was amazing 1st games ive pld for ages where people run past ya if ur behind a box and actually dont exactley know where u r constantley. Every 1 seemed to be so much worst than they normally are even dicked geo and some of his smiles buddy's would that of happened on a vac server?? ahaha yeh right [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	N3M- endeffect 23:52 27/12/2004	roll on all the accuasions about EVERYONE :) will these hacks show up in csgn screenshots? curious..gonna go check :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ThEGforcE 23:56 27/12/2004	the black border around screenshots only apply to a hack called mosquito this was the only CD proof hack for a while i dont even think its made for vac ESL = uses CD so only hack ppl could use is mosquito hence all the ppl with black borders csgn = vac so basically people wouldnt use a CD hack so u wont see no screenshots with a black border [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Pimpboy feo 00:49 28/12/2004	what gaz said [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	nicklearse Missing In Action 05:59 28/12/2004	1337 [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	enc\|mike 06:12 28/12/2004	VAC is laughable though for 1.6. If i worked for Valve i wouldnt go home to my family and friends saying i was a VAC Tech tbh. Prolly get firebombed by some random 14 year old. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	JediBitch fightclubclan 07:31 28/12/2004	i cant see any difference in those 2 pics :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Pimpboy feo 08:12 28/12/2004	the border of the screenshot [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	JediBitch fightclubclan 09:06 28/12/2004	oh i see! i was looking for black marks inside the border lol :D btw im glad ESL r waiting until they can run a clean league, it shud be a lesson other leagues shud learn, its better to wait and have an enjoyable clean league, than rushing and putting on a piece of crap that half the clans end up leaving midseason [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	georgeda 10:36 28/12/2004	Are you updating it for newer versions of CD? - I dont think so. It will take me ~2 hours to update it and the next 2 weeks i have no time. BUT i will make lots of tutorials how YOU can make it at you own. I mailed some cheatcoders and explain how it works. Also the source will be released in the next days. For me CD 4.X died - I know all about it and I will share my information Lets look if CD 5.X will be better. --- wouldnt be so sure this is gonna go away :( [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DidGe Synergy Online 10:52 28/12/2004	its funny how you all know so much about cheats [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Pimpboy feo 11:43 28/12/2004	actualy geo is cleverer than he looks its just is his brain being used for the good side or the dark D: [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Valar` The Anti-DoZ 12:12 28/12/2004	another example of cheats and spotty little 15 yr olds who are SO DESPERATE to make names for themselves ruining the community for everyone else. it's about time they realised that THIS is why we hate cheats, and not simply because they cheat. if people want to cheat on a public i dont really care, i can always go to another one, but in organised games all it really achives is the collapse of a league and the end result of everyones time being wasted. which is really gay because its only a hobby for 99% of us. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ThEGforcE 13:47 28/12/2004	ladder's like clanbase are partley to blame for the cheating atm if they took a hard stance on cheats i dont think the problem would be as bad as it is today. basically u got loads of c4u wannabe's who will wallhack it online becoz wilz00 and kritikal got away with it for so long and it made them the players they are. they should of got a life ban and never of been allowed to play in any online league again. People atm know that they can toggle the old wh on and there is no consequences [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Venomous BLACKLiGHT 14:48 28/12/2004	so true [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	JediBitch fightclubclan 15:35 28/12/2004	i'd like to see some kind of ip banning.....thing :) if ur caught cheating, ur ip is added to the database and presto u cant play cs, i know not everyone has a static ip, so the ppl with dynamic ones will get away with it, but add that to steam ID bans, and CD or whatnot, and it might be ok :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	enc\|mike 16:27 28/12/2004	If u want u can ring the maker of the cheat up. just do a whois on his site and hes got his address and contact details there :) -- Hopefully, cheating won't be an issue with the ESL UK Tournament with an Admin on the server and each players demo's going through the Anti-Cheat Team for checks. /me crosses fingers. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Psy^ xtreme9.uk 19:32 28/12/2004	Lets hope the anti cheat team are competent :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Hayes- 23:22 28/12/2004	What Gaz and Jedib***h said, except instead of IP banning do it through your hardware (think its BF that does this) so that if you're caught cheating you're going to have to buy a new pc to play again. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Rigante 23:24 28/12/2004	sigh, why would he feel the need to spend so much of his time purely to destroy attempts to make online gaming a fun and fair pasttime... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	siLki 23:43 28/12/2004	WHAT? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MaCcA^ 23:45 28/12/2004	Jedib***h you can change your IP easy! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	RoMeRz 01:52 29/12/2004	I think its Americas Army or something similar that takes not of a MAC address and bans you if your caught cheating. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	JediBitch fightclubclan 07:03 29/12/2004	no idea is perfect, but it helps right? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Blinder Random Five 08:47 29/12/2004	the intention was there JB, it's just not a solid solution really, like MaCaA said - IP change is v.easy.....the idea of getting the MAC address is good, so the cheater has to get a new network card every time they want to play again....think about those who use on board LAN, or have shuttles with no PCI slots left........gonna cost you at least a tenner every time you get caught for a new NIC, or at the very least a s*** load of hassle trying to fit the damned thing where you have no space left.....maybe CD should do that, it's about 15 lines of code I think.... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	JediBitch fightclubclan 12:19 29/12/2004	im just thinking of a bigger punishment than buying a £3 copy of half life :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 13:00 29/12/2004	can u get HL for £3 now? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Valar` The Anti-DoZ 13:09 29/12/2004	i think the most promising thing atm is this sound check malarky. am i right in assuming it checks all the files in your hl directory for alterations? if so, then the next step i guess would be for a league to implement a sign-up policy whereby players allow their ENTIRE hard drives to be scanned for files, namely known cheat programs. its relatively simple to code something which will return a unique checksum value on a file which can then be checked against checksums for known cheat files. the record of this could then be saved and compared everytime u log on to server secured in this manner, which would mean you dont have to scan 50,000+ files everytime u log on, only new or altered files would be checked. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	mebR 13:33 29/12/2004	new version of CD is apparently coming out by Friday to stop CDD, yay :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	enc\|mike 20:45 29/12/2004	^^ we hope. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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