ArmA 2 site hacked

[Yegor 10]

Read my post properly.

I said the number does not strictly need to stand for 1907. In this case it does, of course, but any further years that come up could point to events in different centuries.

oh, sorry... missunderstood...**11 october is end of imperial china, so it is still 19**..

[Tomatosauce 10]

Yeah, I was probably first to open the .exe thats what it says now.

[maddogx 13]

At least this will confirm if my automatic monitoring script works. :D

EDIT: Yup. Works.

[klamacz 448]

Changing start date of app to 1-May-2011 :

App started with this date, but it shows the same message. There has to be some counter inside - changing date wont give us new messages

[Tomatosauce 10]

Also to confirm it replaces the old text with new one. So history lesson will be missed if you sleep.

[maddogx 13]

Change the start date to 9th October 1911. See if the message about the chinese empire still pops up the next day.

Also to confirm it replaces the old text with new one. So history lesson will be missed if you sleep.

Look a few pages back. I've written an AutoIt script that logs all messages. :)

[SwiftyBoy 0]

Heh, I wonder if December 15, 1925 is going to figure?

[klamacz 448]

Change the start date to 9th October 1911. See if the message about the chinese empire still pops up the next day.

it wont

[Yegor 10]

and if you'll change the date to 1999? 12 years to wait less than 105...

[klamacz 448]

and if you'll change the date to 1999? 12 years to wait less than 105...

Date doesnt matter, counter matters. Someone with cheatEngine should find it as a value still increasing.

App is checking this value instead of date

[4 IN 1 0]

LOL, this community is too clever for their own good! :p

Edited May 11, 2011 by 4 IN 1

[GreyMatter 10]

just thinking about the laws of war "...Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire..."

using them for cover and napalm. likely not good ideas then

[soul_assassin 1750]

start seeker, start cheatengine, search for 4 byte 1907 and change it to any year you want :)

[Yegor 10]

Date doesnt matter, counter matters. Someone with cheatEngine should find it as a value still increasing.

App is checking this value instead of date

Oh...I see...

[maddogx 13]

start seeker, start cheatengine, search for 4 byte 1907 and change it to any year you want :)

Other peeps keep saying that doesn't work.

[klamacz 448]

start seeker, start cheatengine, search for 4 byte 1907 and change it to any year you want :)

it wont work... :) take my word on that

[soul_assassin 1750]

what you mean it wont work? it will just reset to 1908 at new year ?

EDIT: nope goes to the next year no problem, just gotta know the right year now.

Edited May 11, 2011 by Soul_Assassin

[purepassion 22]

try some dates when the BIS Arma series games where released

[Mr. Charles 22]

I am scanning 2011 now :O

[klamacz 448]

I am scanning 2011 now :O

how exactly?

[beton 2]

Anybody else have this?

10oct11: Effective end of the chinese empire

[-Paladin- 10]

Maybe some one coed open the file in DOS.

The "hackers" have written inside the seeker.exe this file cant be open in dos.maskirofka?

I did open the file in notepad++ and visual basic but only gibberish inside and i have 0 clue how to use DOS.

Holy Cow its so long ago i did use dos last time.

[PuFu 4600]

try some dates when the BIS Arma series games where released

I am scanning 2011 now :O

It is impossible to do it:

in other words, what klamacz said:

seeker increments rather than actually searching based on some year.

That said, if you mess with the start date, the program will consider the starting point the date you input, and find the same clues, but with different (read WRONG) dates.

anyways, i wonder if it's any way to find the actual clues in that wall of hex

[maddogx 13]

I'll repeat this again, just to make sure everyone sees it. I have written a small script that can monitor the seeker.exe as it runs in the background. This way we can record all new messages that are displayed, even when we're not looking.

For anyone wanting to use it, two possibilities:

Option #1: Install AutoIt, then download this script and run it. It will monitor the seeker.exe window and log all text messages to log.txt.

Option #2: If you trust me and don't want to install AutoIt, I have compiled the monitoring script to an executable. Just get it here and run it.

In both cases you can keep seeker.exe running, no need to restart it. The monitoring script will just jump right in and start recording changes. It will also show a try tip whenever a new message pops up. :)

[PuFu 4600]

cheers for the scrip mate, but would much rather prefer not having to run it for 48h+

(unfortunatly, the speed of this software is not dependent on CPU power - i have it running on a dual core as well as on a sixcore and the thing is almost in synk)

Edited May 11, 2011 by PuFu