'Official' Half-Life 2 Thread. Do Not Create New Threads (NO SPOILERS)

[Grumpy]

Your readme says to put three files in the directory or is the hijack_hl2.exe actually the steams exe?

[hijack]

Put the three files in your steam directory and run hijack_hl2.exe. It'll run your normal steam.exe and modify it while it's running.
You don't have to overwrite any file to install it.

[Grumpy]

Ok done that so i will just disable my internet to make sure its not connecting to steam! Then i will come back and verify if it worked.

[hijack]

It WILL and MUST connect to steam!

This is not a crack, it'll only allow you to play the game without the CD in the drive. Nothing more!

Just a nocd, as explained on the web page.

[ente]

I open the site with mozilla firefox

and loaded the side, my virusscanner says there where a trojan/browser hijacker on this site

[hijack]

Originally Posted by ente

I open the site with mozilla firefox

and loaded the side, my virusscanner says there where a trojan/browser hijacker on this site

Your virus detector is stupid. Did it panic when it found the word "hijack" on the webpage?

Everything is availiable to ensure there's no trojan: you can check the HTML source, the program source, build the source with Dev-C++ (free software) or something else and get hl2.exe from a friend you trust.

Grumpy: download it again or get it directly from the webpage (refresh it).

[Grumpy]

Ahh I see you added the hl2.exe after I had already downloaded the original package!! But guess what? IT WORKED!! Played without the CD!
You my friend are a legend in my views!!
At last we dont need the CD but as Hijack has stated it still needs to connect to steam.
Thankyou very much for that Hijack (sorry I doubted you but we are a suspicious bunch here)

P.S: You should post it to GameCopyWorld. Send it to here: http://gamecopyworld.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi?sm_gcw

[Grumpy]

Read your last post just before i went to disconnect so i left internet on but still got the 'Insert CD' message! But the thing I dont understand, the hl2.exe is not in the package? The other two files are there but not the hl2.exe?