Stars Bot Detection

Bishop22 · #1 01-26-2006, 10:15 PM

Anyone ever had a problem with Stars accusing you of being a bot when using an AHK script? I am not worried about the script I use for Party becasue it is based on SAMIAm's widgets (thanks btw) and doesn't even necessarily look like a bot. The script I just wrote for Stars sends mouseclicks to specific locations over and over and could be suspicious. Anyone had a problem before? Anyone think I should notify them in advance?

omaha91 · #2 01-27-2006, 10:05 AM

Lots of people use AHK so you wont have any problems.

SamIAm · #3 01-27-2006, 02:03 PM

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it is based on SAMIAm's widgets (thanks btw)

[/ QUOTE ]Sorry to hijack, but did you make many cool changes? I'd love to see what you put in. Could you PM me or post it here?

Thanks.
-Sam

Terry · #4 01-27-2006, 04:05 PM

No way the sites are going to be able to take any action against script users. There are many scripting and macroing programs around, AHK isn't the only one. They have many legimate uses. Because of carpal tunnel, my play time would be extremely limited if I had to use a mouse all the time instead of pressing keys.

Also, if you look at your Start menu you'll notice under AutoHotkey the option to "Convert .ahk to .exe". When you compile a script to an .exe you can name it anything you want and it will run on a computer that doesn't even have AHK installed. That means that even if the site scanned your computer they wouldn't see "StarsMouseClicker.ahk" they would see "helper.exe" or whatever generic name you gave it.

SamIAm · #5 01-27-2006, 04:27 PM

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No way the sites are going to be able to take any action against script users. There are many scripting and macroing programs around, AHK isn't the only one. They have many legimate uses. Because of carpal tunnel, my play time would be extremely limited if I had to use a mouse all the time instead of pressing keys.

Also, if you look at your Start menu you'll notice under AutoHotkey the option to "Convert .ahk to .exe". When you compile a script to an .exe you can name it anything you want and it will run on a computer that doesn't even have AHK installed. That means that even if the site scanned your computer they wouldn't see "StarsMouseClicker.ahk" they would see "helper.exe" or whatever generic name you gave it.

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Sure, but they'll still notice that your mouse is acting pretty damn usual. I think they'll be able to tell if you're using a script regardless of the name of the file; mostly they just don't care.
-Sam