Small Program that starts WoW and performs a login with your password. The program is written in Visual Basic and if you don't trust me, just recompile it, i uploaded the source files ;)
Use: Put the .exe into you WoW Folder and create a shortcut. Add your password to the command line like you would for example -console in counter-strike etc. Start the shortcut!
Info: You might need the Visual Basic Runtime Files (generic files needed for any program written in VB). Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7b9ba261-7a9c-43e7-9117-f673077ffb3c&DisplayLang=en
** The program does NOT do anything with the password except ONE SendKeys() command (for login) **
Enc-Version: Encrypts the Password and saves it in your Registry. As well as you WoW.exe destination. Thus you can put the program wherever you want, not necessarely in your WoW Folder (like the other versions). I did not (and will not) upload the source for this version, since the Encrypting algorithm would be sort of useless then. I guarantee for this version, that this program does _not_ spy your password or save it anywhere but in your local registry.
Del-Version: Start the program with a delay as a commandline (like in previous versions the password). I chose to add it like that so that you don't have to retype it every single time, but you can also have another shortcut to it with a different delay (1hour and 0sec delay for example). The delay is added as hours:minutes:seconds. It does not take just two digits for each, so you can add like 120:00 for two hours (for whatever reason you might want to do that).
Oops... Uploaded a testversion of the delay one... Sorry!!!!!! I fixed it...
Blizz Rules concerning 3rd Party Software:
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/legal/termsofuse.html
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You agree that you will not
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2) create or use cheats, "mods", and/or hacks, or any other third-party software designed to modify the World of Warcraft experience;
3) use any third-party software that intercepts, "mines", or otherwise collects information from or through World of Warcraft
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This program is rather useless, because if ur wow takes longer then 300 ms (or ticks for this instance) then the log in willnot complete.
The Code shows no ability to steal the password, i would download the source and compile and use that instead of the downloadable exe.
Sounds like a hack to get n00b items somone gave them lol, What are you gonna get? n00bs using it and acouple hours later lost an item that sell in AH for 3 silver?
lol ok stop laughing i found that stupid checkbox "remember account name", i could swear it wasnt there before though... now i know the tool doesnt try to connect again after 1st login failed, thats bad T_T but the author still deserves credit, even i could get this thing to work perfectly :) thumbs up again!
lol whats wrong with you people if you dont like the tool or think its not safe or whatever, just dont use it eh? no need to go into lengthy debates. as for me, i like the idea of an auto-login tool since i got problems connecting to my server very often and a tool that logs in for me would be just what i need. so thumbs up for the author! my only problem now is, a) i dont know how to config wow so that my username is filled in automatically (since you can only fill in the password with the tool right?). i know the username is in the "...\WTF\Account" folder but how does that help me? b) i dont know if the tool will repeatedly try to login until its successful, or if it only tries one time in which case it would be almost useless for me T_T so if anyone can help me with that it would be much appreciated :)
you try to re-implement a feature that has been banned by Blizzard months ago. What do you think the Blizzard scanner is for? It's for scanning tools that provide features that cannot be banned in any other way..like yours.
It's not a question of interpreting the TOS/EULA.....
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If you can take a look at the source (and recompile it yourself), you obviously got visual basic. Therefore it would be possible for you to take the 1.0 source and add the password to the code. The version with encryption is for those who can't compile it themself, so a source upload is in my opinion not necessary. Ofc you can look at the source with a text editor, but if you don't trust me, you also can't trust me I uploaded the correct source ^^
-bitbiter-
You smile but you don't seem to understand the point.
I KNOW if you upload the sources the encryption would be useless.
The point is without the sources no one can be sure what your app do, maybe it does encryption maybe something else like storing or sending the user password somewhere...
I think you can understand that point.
Now I'm not telling you want to steal ppl password I tell ppl they CAN'T be SURE you won't. (you or anybody offering a similar addon, nothin personnal here)
In the Enc version (without delay) you can change it by running the program with any command line. Fastest way would be dragging a file onto the autostart.exe...
For the delay version it's basically the same, except that the command may not be a valid time format as discribed above.
-bitbiter-
Hi,
I like know how to change the pasword in your addon and change the wow directory it use. I put one day a pasword in the addon and i change it recently in the game...
Well... Visit http://babel.altavist.com/ for the translation. They basically say they don't offend programs as long as they confide with the rules (link is given in the addon description). After that, they only say that they do not support such programs. I guess they mean that if you use it and your password is hacked that way, they're not gonna be the ones to be blamed. Understandable of course...
-bitbiter-
You "forgot" to translate the interesting part from that german Blizzard response. The part that reiterates what the people with common (IT) sense in this thread have been preaching over and over.
People should stop trying to nitpick over literal interpretations of the TOS/EULA and think a few times over the analogy of writing the bank PIN on the back of your bank card or the statement of "how many clicks and keystrokes did you repeat over and over and over while playing wow already?".
No evil intentions in this tool, there's even some practical uses like the queue thing, but generally it makes the security unaware (speak: most) users even more careless.
I use the german version as well and it works perfectly fine. Open notepad.exe (Start // execute // notepad.exe). Start my program and switch to notepad immediately before wow is up. Your password should appear there and not in WoW so you can see where the problem is ;)
-bitbiter-
hi, with the encryption version I get the problem of wrong authentication info and it doesn't log me in. manual login works as always, I double and triple checked my typing of the password, deleted the whole registry entry of wow autostart, but i always get authentication failed if i use your program. as said, manual login always works. i'm using German windows xp with enGB version of WoW. any ideas?
This "suspicious scripting activity" means two objects I use. The first one is used for Reading // Writing into the registry. I ensure you that it only writes into "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WoWAutostart". Though it does read from another location to find the WoW.exe path...
I ensure you that this program does NOT do anything with you password except what it has to perform the login.
-bitbiter-
I scanned it with McAfee Virus Scan, and it is not infected. Second, when running enc version, it says:
The file C:\blah\blah contains suspicious scripting activity and has been stopped.
I click more information:
File: WoW AutoStart enc.exe Activity: The script is attempting to call the RegRead method (retrieves a value of a key or value) within the IWshShell3 object.
I click allow, and it logs me in. I'm not saying it is not doing anything wrong, but this is McAfee's stand on it.
"It would not be to difficult for blizzard to add an imposable to hack password encryption system since it could change the encryption method every time you log into the game (to prevent hackers from breaking the code and then being able to get the password from anyone)."
Imposable to hack? I dunno what that means... however, I should hasten to point out that computer security, as with any form of security is alway sa game of one-upsmanship, and nothing is *impossible* to hack. If anything were, the whole computer security business wouldnt exist in the first place...
With regards to the mod/program, yeah it's probably harmless (I can't think of any reason someone would put this much of a public face on a piece of software like this only to have it screw over thousands of people), but it has the potential to be malicious by way of it's basic design. Couple that with the notion that I can't honestly see much use for such a thing, and well, there you have it.
Still, to each their own.
There are a few problems with an option to login with you character. First of all, at the moment this program blindly types the password and presses enter. It does not check if wow has the focus, or if the password textfield is activated (this program won't work if the nickname textbox got the focus, or if you switch to another application before wow is done loading). To give that option, I would have to hook the WoW window and collect information about the contents shown in WoW from time to time, to check if the Queue-Window is gone. If you take a close look at the blizz rules (quoted above), you'll see that blizzard might ban your account for that. It does not completely break their rules, but might be understood as that, and I personally wouldn't risk a banned account just for having to press "enter".
You said, you'd schedule the program to login... The deal is, when you're in the characterpick-screen (or ingame), WoW will disconnect you after a certain time. But if you're on a highly populated realm, you can probably cut like an hour of waiting by scheduling this program. WoW does not disconnect you for being afk when you're in Queue ;)
I'll go right at adding this option...
-bitbiter-
I havent tested the addon yet, but if it enters the password and logs in too, i see a very good use for it: guildraids. You get home from work at 19u30 for example, queues on my server are around 45-60 minutes then on a bad day, and the raid is at 20u. so, you just schedule this exe at 18u45 or so, and you're never late again for that raid.
ps is it possible to make it so that it automatically logs in with a character too, so that you're ingame when you come home :)
Here's the answer of the blizz tech support:
Sehr geehrter Herr ***,
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Blizzard needs to add password encryption to the game itself to put an end to all this crap.
It would not be to difficult for blizzard to add an imposable to hack password encryption system since it could change the encryption method every time you log into the game (to prevent hackers from breaking the code and then being able to get the password from anyone).
Maybe hire a few more forum administrators. Hell a representative for each class while they are at it. Oh wait that is to much for a multi billion dollar company to do.