MichaelH
04-23-2002, 07:01 AM
Weird subject maybe, but i'd like to start a thread about the cheater/anticheater methods.<br /><br />I've been reading a lot from webmasters ressources and still miss the necessary expertise/infos on how to track down more experienced cheaters... <br /><br />These days, actual traffic trading software provide also instant (autonome) anti-cheat features which easily help finding suspicious traffic flow, by highlighting those trades in question.<br /><br />If a certain trade goes beyond a certain predefined limit of proxy-traffic (in/out), a trade might be disabled automatically, until the incoming traffic reaches a normal level again, thus re-enabling the trade again etc...<br /><br />Personally, i learned to deal with very obvious hitbot traffic... But what about those advanced hitbotters, which not only hit extremely (in/out) from one single proxy-ip (also confirmed when checking other trades ip-logs), but through a large scale of different proxy-ips...? How can you say if it's cheating or not ?<br /><br />How do you guys deal with this kind of proxy-traffic ? When do you begin to worry about suspicious proxy-traffic? Are there any common proxy in/out percentages you'd specifically define as being especially interesting to look at?<br /><br />It's obvious that it'd be foolish to ban/delete everything related with proxies, as most broadband connections use them as well... <br /><br />What else do you look for when checking your logs/stats (when looking for possible cheaters)?<br /><br />Proxy-traffic might be very valuable or... not.<br /><br />It'd be nice if everyone could jump in on this thread and share their experiences/knowledge with productive advice =) <img border="0" alt="[Nod]" title="" src="graemlins/nod.gif" /> It could not only help ttotal trade newbies but also offer more insight ffor experienced webmasters.<br /><br />Thanks in advance! Mich