question about diablosight

[Hureg]

And just how can he modify a file that's not even on his machine? For someone to break into your computer and modify the file, he'd have to do something that's illegal. No trainer program will do that. So, possibilities:
(1) You ran into a black hat (and how many of them play grungy old games?)
(2) Someone figured out how to corrupt other players' save files without needing to access files on the target machine.
(3) Your save file was corrupted by something else.

I've heard this sort of story lots of times, and I've never heard it verified by someone who can explain precisely what happened. So, it just sounds like scare tactics to me. That said, creating character backups is a good idea for lots of reasons -- and the lag monster is no small motivator.

-Lemmy
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Sorry, i can't really help any as i kinda suck with computers. All i know is that the only thing altered was the save file (meaning my computer seemed fine after), that no one i know or have known on b.net has had a similar loss, that i had no firewall protection for my computer and that i had no external programs running at the time, be they diablo related or otherwise, with the exception of diabloguard (a scanner, used by many of the people i play/have played with on b.net). I was using win98 o/s and i must say that it did seem very apparent to me that whatever happened was caused by the 100+ character that joined my game.

I was only new to b.net at the time (i'd played d before, but that was long ago and only through ipx and kali - modem was too rubbish to play over bnet) and didn't really know anything tech related at all - otherwise, i would provide you with screenshots and a copy of the corrupted save. As it stands though i have neither.

Wikipedia is down - black hat = hacker?

PS - a couple of days later - trying to find some items for my recreated warrior with my sorcerer - i came upon an emerald shield of the tiger - a gift from lusty, in normal no less - and have been playing low ac ever since - some time things just happen for a reason