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CT l Crham wrote:1. How can I tell if I have a hacker.
This is something that comes with time and experience. After watching the obvious hacks, you can start to understand what exactly they do to give themselves an advantage.
CT l Crham wrote:2. How can I best guard against it
Best thing against hackers is to have a group of good admins. Automated anti-cheats aren't that great, sometimes has false detections and can cause lag on the gameserver.
CT l Crham wrote:3. and how can I stop the cheats.
Same thing as above, have a good set of admins playing on the server.
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Is there a list of hack and what to look for?
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CT l Crham wrote:Is there a list of hack and what to look for?
No, not really. The obvious hacks will have their crosshair jerk straight for the head and fire. Also can see their crosshair twitching or see them speeding around. Its rare that people are obvious with wall hacks, most try to hide it so that will probably be your hardest thing to catch.
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CT l Crham wrote:Guys I am trying to follow along but im a little lost. I would like to know 3 things if you can. I am a new server owner.

1. How can I tell if I have a hacker.

2. How can I best guard against it

3. and how can I stop the cheats.

Sorry this may be repetitive but I need it explained for the simple minded

Thanks,
Well here are my opinions.

1.Usually there are cheats that obviously look when someones cheating for example in 1.6 when someone has aimbot you can see their screen shake and when they shoot it aims around the head area.Here is some hack sites well explained http://wiki.counter-hack.net/CategoryCSHacks and here is when the cheating population started to form in the world of counter-strike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_in_Counter-Strike .

2.Depending on what game you are running it would be best if you could get all the anti-cheating devices that are compatiable with one another.
For counter-strike 1.6 there are only a few anti-cheating devices
such as VAC 2 , hlguard, and C-D(Cheating death) .Cheating death is not compatible with VAC 2 I believe however I am not sure anymore but I do know that it has been discontinued as a project so I wouldn't use it.Hlguard and VAC 2 are the anti-cheating devices most servers have.
Also if you want a masterban list that also protects your server for 1.6 and source http://www.steambans.com i's plugin is useful .

For source there is autoban, http://www.steambans.com ,the anti-cheats in mani and beetlesmod,a good admin,and VAC 2 .

3.There is no way to actually stop cheaters from creating new hacks all the time.The way to get them out of your server is simply having all your anti-cheating systems updated,and a good active admin in your server just in case the anti-cheating systems do not catch a hack.
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CT l Crham wrote:Is there a list of hack and what to look for?
Eh,I think I may have found something to help you out. http://wiki.counter-hack.net/hacksdictionary .
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you can buy the hacks and watch videos.
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RLSZezima wrote:you can buy the hacks and watch videos.
Do not do that as some hacks leave traces of them running in your memory. Memory is scanned by VAC2 NOT your hard drive, therefore, running a cheat just to determine a cheater can get you banned. Programs, even after they are closed execute termination sequences through the computers memory. Problem is, they stay in the memory for too long and VALVe will catch it.

My best suggestion is - if you use AMXX, download Kost's "Admin Spectator ESP" @ http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread ... +spectator

Excellent plugin, he explains what it does on that website (link to AMXX forums)

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Im not gona do that, lol I play legit and go to Tourny's so fuck that all that is going to do is fuck my game up lol. Just posting the Link of where.
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