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ReFscan Interview

Posted by Fluke at 14:37 5/7/2002.

Antmoo recently found the time to interview Anisty, the Head Coder of ReFscan, a new anti-cheat program developed for Counter-Strike with a less than conventional method of tackling the problem of cheating:

First off could you tell me a bit about ReFscan?

Anisty: ReFscan is an anti cheat program that allows people to link together over the internet and check each other's drives for cheats. Good for trialing and clan wars really. Then there's ReFscan 2 which is a server client program for Half-Life, and works like PunkBuster to keep cheats off your servers. Hopefully we'll be done on that in about 4 weeks so I can get some rest.

How did you go about designing the two programs?

Anisty: I've been working towards making an anti-cheat program since I was working in cheater clans, trying to collapse them from within. All that experience has been valuable because it enables me to understand how cheat coders think and how they will try and get around our programs. The design ideas mostly come from sitting in the channel every night and thinking of ways to hack it.

They discuss everything from cheat coders and the creator of OGC to Valve's own anti-cheat. The full interview can be found here.