Has a site ever banned an AHK script?

[el_grande]

How would they ban one of these? Their client looks for signatures of banned apps, right? Anything they don't like that's being done in an AHK script would have to be detected by watching your play, no?

[APerfect10]

Never banned. And you are right, it'd be rather difficult to ban...

[SamIAm]

Well, you ARE always running autohotkey.exe, right? Your mouse is often doing funky stuff, too, so it's not hard to tell when somebody's not a normal mouser.
-Sam

[Adde]

I think this is a very good incentive for being cautious in creating AHK scripts that are bordeline shady. If a shady script gets popular, chances are sites will make it harder to run all non-shady scripts. That would be a REAL bummer.

Personally I also think this caution should be applied to other areas too. Full Tilt datamining for instance. I'd say let us be happy that they haven't shut down datamining, instead of teasing them to do that by creating various tools that make it easy for everyone to datamine 24/7.

My 2 euro cents.

Adde

[Terry]

It's a simple matter to compile an AHK script to an .exe and rename it just about anything.

PokerSiteScanner.ahk becomes DialysisController.exe

[jukofyork]

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It's a simple matter to compile an AHK script to an .exe and rename it just about anything.

PokerSiteScanner.ahk becomes DialysisController.exe

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I'm not 100% sure, but it could turn out that thr AHK script is held in the .exe unprocessed (no p-code convertion etc).

(I know AutoIt stores "compiled" scripts this way, but they do use a packer though to make it harder to get at...)

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[jukofyork]

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I think this is a very good incentive for being cautious in creating AHK scripts that are bordeline shady. If a shady script gets popular, chances are sites will make it harder to run all non-shady scripts. That would be a REAL bummer.

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