Excessive false positives on STF's automatic ban program

[bazookatooth]

I can assure you that SE can tell who is and who isn't using windower and has been able to probably since the day windower was invented. I can think of a ton of ways off the top of my head. They might not be able to prove it, but they don't have to. They don't even have to tell you why. They just cancel your account and tell you to buy their new mmo ffxiv. I seriously doubt they are banning for windower. They've known about it forever. I think it's most likely that they have a new auto-ban feature gone haywire that is banning people for stuff that SE has always been able to detect, but silently allowed in the past and I doubt they care enough to do anything to "Fix" the ban bot. But then again, there's probably only one thing that SE has ever been consistent with in this game and that is being inconsistent.

[bazookatooth]

To the best of my understanding: When you have both WIndower and FFXI running, the Windower and POL are together in the same memory space. I won't pretend that I have a PhD in Computer Science, nor will I claim that I have some insight into the minds of the programmers at SE. However, I think it's kinda' obvious that there's some kind of "Black Magic" (no pun intended) inside of POL that will inform SE if it detects that something in your systems memory that POL deems is "less than Kosher".

They don't need to do something as intrusive as scanning your memory. I don't even think they could do that if they wanted to. But they can tell from their end pretty easily. The question is, do they want to.