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XIGNCODE with next patch? Hello EME announce atleast that we are installing malware with this game!!
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buy gtx 970 and play tera in vr
so you dont use your smartphone for that ?
lol 20 fps in 2018 on a 2011 game.
I don't think proof of it happening is the point here - The point is that EME, a company who is fairly well known for being inept and lying to their customers both intentionally and unintentionally, has just asked every single TERA player to install a keylogger and file system scanner on their own computer, to send our data to a third party. Not only that, but all the evidence points to this malware not even working for it's intended function. So, basically EME is just asking us to send *everything* we do on our computers for 48 hours before playing tera to a third party for NO reason whatsoever. That's the problem people have with this change.
That's also not true, though. It's not a keylogger. It does not "send *everything* we do on our computers for 48 hours before playing tera to a third party" at all. It scans the files and hashes them to scan against known signatures, like how an anti-virus works. Yeah, even that is more invasive than I'd like, but it's not the same thing.
I'm not a fan of this software, and I do think it's pointless as long as it's completely ineffectual at its supposed function (I wouldn't have introduced it until I was sure it actually solved a problem that needed solving, if it were up to me), but the FUD about what it does is just so completely through the roof that I have no idea where people are getting it from. I don't think it's necessary to lie and exaggerate about what the software does to convince EME that it's a bad idea, because EME already knows these lies and exaggerations aren't true anyway, and are just FUD. It hurts the argument people are trying to make! I've no problem if an army of people come on to say they don't want to install it, they don't trust it, they don't think it'll work, on and on and on; there's plenty to choose from.
I've read different forum posts about this. People said it scans your folders and logs almost everything, which explains its extremely high cpu usage that people claim it has... which makes sense since scanning folders and keylogging everything would take a lot of cpu. From there who knows what its doing. Could easily capture all your file names on your pc and send it somewhere. Log your IP, and at anytime search for whatever they want to use against you, you would never know because to run the game you would have to give it internet access, which is just a wide open backdoor to your entire pc.
I spent a few minutes at https://www.wellbia.com/home/en/ which is their website. I made a more advanced websites back in the mid 1990s when i was a punk kid who was brand new to the internet. It gives me the chills to see a unprofessional website like that, there is no personal contact information on who the CEO of the company is, just vague company address, no accountability.
Best advice, just wait it out and in a few months and see if they still use this malware. TERA has the best combat i've ever seen, love it so much, its a perfect solo mmo game which i love but still not gonna risk my personal safety and my computers security for a game.
you know when you use google or facebook or any microsoft product on internet you already install this third party to send all your info on your computer and unfortunally even your internet provider send your data to someone else
Have fun friends
https://www.reddit.com/r/DFO/comments/30tcb6/xigncode_looks_at_all_files_youve_accessed_in_the/
http://i.imgur.com/zOEDkVa.png
DFO a game with XignCode bundled with it. Why does it need to scan files in your Firefox Profile data?
Just like an anti-virus would, it scans your entire computer, except this hashes the data, then references it to known cheats/hacks/exploits, as Counterpoint mentioned.
The Lenovo Y400 is a laptop from 2012, genius.
I don't know if our version will do that. But the fact that it touches the files to hash them does not mean that it's uploading them either, any more than any anti-virus software, anti-malware software, or other similar tool.
Healthy scepticism is fine, but it's like people have taken all the most paranoid voices around the Internet on this topic and combined them as if that's what it does based on well they could do all these other things too, maybe and we just can't trust them.