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XIGNCODE DISCUSSION!
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I think you might have read something backwards here. You seem to have found evidence of an antivirus program corrupting xigncode and not the other way around. I'll take a look in my wine bottle and see if I can find this vtany.sys.
Netstat gives information about network connections. I'm fairly sure its not going to tell you what is being sent, though. Using this logic, you might as well not even run TERA since it will open network connections. Regardless, EME should really come out and give us more information about their variant of xigncode since it quite clearly appears different than what many of the online reports report.
There wouldn't necessarily be anything suspicious about xigncode sending packets, though. From what I gather, it includes a heart beat. This means the server periodically communicates with it to ensure it is running. It may have other legitimate reasons as an anti-cheat for network connectivity as well. I'm not sure what you are expecting to prove with netstat. If you think the packets might contain inappropriate information, try using something like a packet sniffer to examine them. If it encrypts its communications, not sure if a packet sniffer would actually tell you much, though.
For the record, my preference is still for EME to remove xigncode so that I can get back to playing TERA NA. At the rate this is going, I might have to move to TERA EU.
My main problem with xigncode at this point is it breaks support for non-windows operating systems. I was playing on a non-windows operating system. For a while I thought it was a rootkit, but now I suspect TERA NA's version just runs as a regular process. Still, if it requires admin access, that is still too much access for it in my opinion. Based upon all the problems it is causing, sounds like it is quite buggy. A buggy admin program reading a bunch of files. Since files it reads could be crafted by regular users, sounds like a potential security hole to me. Say some malicious code creates a specially crafted file to exploit a bug in xigncode and get admin access. If it turns out that it can be limited to running as a regular user, that would be good for security. TERA NA would still be broken for non-windows operating systems, though.
You are right that netstat should be able to give some information in regard to network connections xigncode may make. It can't really tell you what it is sending, though.
Since it already modified my system, I logged in a few more times. Tera loads up noticeably slower and inventory/bank stuff is slower for me as well. It also froze up when accessing a shop. I didn't try any combat or dungeons.
Not sure if TERA NA's xigncode is actually running as anything more than an admin level daemon, though. However, based upon the reports of blue screens and such, it may be touching things it shouldn't really be touching. The significantly increased lag that many are reporting also isn't good. I haven't even been able to launch the client post-xigncode since I'm not running windows.
Yeah, this is my point. So many of you are saying Xingcode is peachy, because they are allowing it over in EU. However, that is not the case at all. It is against their new laws, but I highly doubt they'll be enforcing those new laws right away. They most likely will only lean against those laws if a major data breach occurs.
There will never be a class action suit, because all EME has to say is "prove it." Plus, if there was any judgement or BHS thought it would lose, they'd just bankrupt EME and close the doors. It would be extremely tough for any lawyer to be able to get any kind of settlement from an overseas company. Hence why BHS is only suing Epic in South Korea, and they aren't even bothering to open the suit up to other countries.
Anyway I was told from a friend who is good with PCs and knows a good bit about xing, has known about it for 6 years. So my friend noticed it seems to make TERA laggy and you lose FPS. The main thing my friend said tho was it is very unfriendly with old hardware and can push it to it's end, which could have been near . Which is why those with newer hardware see very little to no problems with xing.
The only fun part about the game, for me, FWC and CS was destroyed by xing code HARD fps drop.