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In Germany you got your IP address only for 24 hours. Then your router reconnects to your provider and you got a new one.

ExeTick wrote:appeal your ban as fast as possible to Pbbans or evenbalance.


btw how can you have 430 different IP adresses?

[R-MOD]IINoddyII wrote:Brezmans has already posted in the SA forum on PBBANS requesting somebody take a look at it.

A post in the general section wouldn't hurt either - more noise means somebody will notice and (hopefully) take action.

btw - grats to the community for not going down teh usual path of calling hacker first

When I saw my friend and clanmate Arm-Off in there I knew it was bs... Everyone that has played with him knows that he loves flying, infantry-aimbotting is not his thing.

I see a 4SFG, a QTF and a GDW guy in there, all known PR clans, none ever suspected of hacking, one weird ban is weird, 30 weird bans is just downright unbelievable.

But, hey, I for one welcome our new punkbuster overlords, don't want to get my account on that list.

Anyone know on how to move from here? Do the affected people have to appeal individually? No pbbans staffmembers have replied to my thread on pbbans yet.

I think individuals will need to lodge a ticket with evenbalance. Give them as much information about your system as you can, other programs that were running in the background etc.

ExeTick wrote:appeal your ban as fast as possible to Pbbans or evenbalance.


btw how can you have 430 different IP adresses?

Dynamic DHCP dont worry about it it's normal

Hmm I wish I had Driver 320.18 to explain it - but mine is 314.22
Also I didn't update anything manually and the last windows update was 15th may.

I did have some Bluescreens (with physical memory dump) lately though. So that might be related..
My guess is they have something to do with either Bitdefender, the nVidia console or Adobe updater..
It could also be my printer which i recently plugged into a faulty usb port. But I guess then it wouldn't have anything to do with Punkbuster..

I posted any relevant information on evenbalance but I am not sure if they are doing anything with it. This sucks.

Hmm I wish I had Driver 320.18 to explain it - but mine is 314.22

I also have version 314.22 installed, just checked it... Should I be worried?

I don't know.. it doesn't necessarily have to be the nvidia drivers.
Could be Bitdefender, or some windows update for 64bit systems or a combination of any of these or whatever..

But IF you find yourself banned make sure to come back here
..and I guess report it on evenbalance..

Edit: Second evening without PR. I am thinking about going out into the real world.. Not sure how long I would last there though.

I have geforce 314.22 drivers(didn't update it or anything) and I still got banned for aimbot just a few minutes ago while playing vanilla bf2.

Last things I did was to buy a new mouse a4tech bloody v7 and update flash player for browser(since it asked to be updated).

Also my system is win8 64bit, and I got bitdefender too.

Surely, I don't use aimbot.

I wonder how many people who got banned have or had bitdefender.

Me too - would be nice to have more of the recently banned come here and write about their specs..

Hokunin, please appeal your ban at evenbalance, the more people appealing this, the more info they can get and the more we will be able to determine whether these bans are valid or not.

Also, please keep us updated here if you will, I'm sure I'm not the only one curious about this.

Evenbalance gave me a Standard-response that looks a lot like copy&paste:


05/29/2013 12:23:10 - "Alex J"
Note #7: The supplied GUID has been associated with hacking or interfering with the normal operation of our PunkBuster software and has therefore been compromised resulting in a global ban from PunkBuster enabled game servers. We have no way of knowing who was actually playing with this GUID at the time the violation was triggered. We also have no way to know if the violation was triggered on your specific computer. Our system does not collect personal information and furthermore we have no way to attach a cheat/hack violation to a specific person. This ban will not be lifted as then the person who did trigger the violation would again be able to join PunkBuster Servers using this GUID.

To be clear: we are not saying that you cheated as we have no way to know who triggered the violation. If it is certain that no one playing on your computer ever had a cheat/hack violation triggered by PunkBuster, then your GUID (cdkey and/or game account password) has been stolen by or leaked to someone who has used it on a different computer to trigger the violation. We do not have the means to help you find out who is responsible for compromising your GUID"



I doubt they are really looking into this issue..

I guess I am going to roll-back my graphic drivers, uninstall bitdefender, get a new game and hope for the best.

Edit: this fucking sucks.

OMG. That is a horrible response! I don't think EvenBalance gives half a **** about BF2 anymore and may be why their answer is so poor. The banlist is ridiculously large for this violation all of a sudden. If PB was watching and waiting for offenders then rolling out a big banwave they should have explained that to you. You should not just give up and buy a new game. Perhaps contact EA and explain the situation to them, at the very least get a free key?

I lost my BF3 account(pasword hacked or something) and I had to call EA and got it sorted out fast and the rep that helped me was very friendly.

Now I'm scared of playing PR.

I am scared of playing any kind of game with PB now

I like how the evenbalance response is that because it is associated with hacking, that this guid will be banned.

Obviously it is associated with hacking, obviously that's what he is appealing. As someone who is strongly trained in formal logic my head is spinning here.

if these guys are getting paid, they are getting paid too much.

Pbbans are doing it for free, I dont know about evenbalance.

I got from Evenbalance the exact same message as 'arm-off-please-help'. They just copy&paste template text, I guess they don't even bother to read the information. I don't see the point of their "ban appeal" section on their site then.
Man... This is ridiculous.

FatalWaffles wrote:250 ip address limit?

Oh, there was some warning in his pbbans site that I saw, thought it was the reason.

What does cached data mean?