Sicheats (h4x0r) trainers now contain DRM but why?

[Lerianis]

Originally Posted by tazzoun

First of all, I have been downloading trainers from here for a long time. I am not some kind of cheathappens lover so please don't dismiss me as such like you do everyone else that says a negative word about h4x0r.

I just downloaded the FEAR 3 trainer by h4x0r from the GCW website. Apparently to use this FREE trainer I have to go to sicheats.com, create an account there, create a FACEBOOK account, download some kind of key and then always leave my internet connection on so the FREE trainer can authenticate itself. Say what? How exactly is this different than cheathappens again? The only reason a FREE trainer would need all this type of crap is so that the creator can harvest the information being collected and sell it off to advertisers, etc.

After looking further at this "authentication" process of h4x0r's trainer, I then learned that it also carries with it a malicious payload that stays resident in memory even after the trainer is done. It actively scans memory and HD for anything with the word "cheathappens" and then attaches a viral signature to it so those files no longer function. This can easily be reproduced and examined by anyone with a debugger or memory scanner using the files from GCW or h4x0rs website.

So, I must ask the obvious question -- why does GCW continue to entertain this stuff from h4x0r? Seriously, is he paying you guys to host this crap?

So now I have to jump through about 10 hoops plus give h4x0r my personal information just to use a FREE trainer that I downloaded from GCW. What's next you guys? Selling trainers like cheathappens?

Agreed.... I love the trainers from Sicheats.com, but this kind of stuff is getting on my bad side.... I had the gall (in his mind) to post about it and how it was very suspicious that he called for this (not to mention that some people don't have always on internet connections), and the bastard banned me for doing that!

I am beginning to think that Sicheats isn't the 'white knight' in this and that he might have just as black an armor as Cheathappens.

Log-ins are a dealbreaker for me in my opinion..... free or not, there is no reason to require that and it IS just another form of DRM.

Originally Posted by Maxgrilo

I think people are starting to lose focus on the real issue here. Malware or not, should GCW be hosting files that REQUIRE you to register at a third party site (which may or may not be harvesting your info or might at any time in the future) in order to simply use the file? It's my opinon that files hosted on this site should run independently of any outside program or authentication process. Just because these trainers may not collect or send any data now, that could easily be changed at any point down the road by h4x0r's team once the trainers were being readily accepted and posted on this site.

THAT is what I am worried about as well..... I don't want something on my damned computer that needs a connection to the internet just to use the thing. I simply don't..... if there is a PURPOSE behind the internet connection like with a browser that REQUIRES it, that is fine..... trainers? Don't require it in the slightest.