XXX-rated PBSS blocker

[BlackBelt]

I was looking at the banlist and found XXX-rated PBSS blocker.
What did it do?

[Titan-=Of-God=-†]

instead of it showing you what they are seeing. it shows you a sexually explicit image

[Created-=Of-God=- (Matt)]

Jun 8, 2008 11:37:20 GMT -5 Titan-=Of-God=-† said:

instead of it showing you what they are seeing. it shows you a sexually explicit image

Yikes. I never even knew that existed. What messed up person thought of that?

[Peace-=Of-God=-]

  I do remember those particular screenshots , now that you brought it up ... disgusting it was ... still turns my stomach when I'm reminded of them .

  Generally speaking, most PBSS-blocking cheats will allow their users to insert any picture that they so desire instead of letting the system take a picture of their visual cheats. Most cheaters who use them will substitute a "clean" screenshot of some place on the map that the server is running (some of the fancier blockers will rotate through a specified list of shots, so that the admin isn't tipped off by seeing the same picture over and over in every screenshot). And of course, sometimes dumber cheaters will change servers/maps and forget to change their blocker picture -- I've seen many screenshots where the server is running one map and the cheater is returning screenshots from several other maps (in that situation, if it happens once, sometimes that's due to changing from one server to another and having a PBSS requested by the first server get returned to the second server ... haven't seen that happen in a while, though -- but if a player is returning multiple screenshots from the wrong map, it's usually due to a PBSS blocker).

  One other point to keep in mind when seeing such shots, though, is that there is a known glitch in the PBSS system (rather than a cheat) where occasionally a screenshot will be taken of the user's desktop or other open programs when the player ALT-TAB's out of the game. I've seen some pretty weird stuff show up in such screenshots, including emails, Excel spreadsheets, AIM conversations, Internet browsers, and of course desktop wallpapers (some of which have also been sexually suggestive and/or explicit).