Frost is infamous for his join-list crash game spam, but he recently pulled out one better...

I introduce to gentlemen today, the Frost@USEast > You 2.0 ... if you have cinematics installed on your starcraft, it will play the blizzard logo cinematic, and then bring you back to the channel you were in. It is quite the thing... It crashes you when you try and join another game afterward.

I find this funny and awesome.

Discuss.

Bnet's gonna end up being a malware vector before long. If it isn't already, for all we know.

Blizzard simply stopped caring about Battle.net, At this point its survival of the fittest.

They'll update Battle.net 1.0 to interface with 2.0 one of these days, but at the moment it's very low on their list of priorities. For the time being, I've stopped using the old battle.net completely for fear of malware.

I thought it was impossible to get viruses from bnet?

StarCraft 1 -- and hence Battle.net 1 -- is full of vulnerable buffer overflows, among many, many, many other problems. It's a massive exploit waiting to happen.

Well, good. I hope I get a virus and this computer explodes and burns in hell.

People have been recently immitating the Frost@USEast > You, but they don't crash the game. They usually name the game "Frost@USEast > You 18879394002830962" and it is pretty annoying seeing ten thousand of those things everywhere ._.

I don't get why people still fall for it, when I first saw it I was like "whatever" and went to the game that me and my friend were planning.
If you say that your still trying to play one of those games, your quite frankly ignorant or dumb.

Thanks. It's actually random, one plays the Blizzard Logo, the other the Broodwar Intro.

But yeah the game name/statstring overflow can execute any function by manipulating the stack. The end result being X function is called, with some registers filled with whatever was in the stack. You can also call system level functions and cause damage.

It's a serious exploit, and only one of many. For now, there hasn't been anything dangerous, nor have there been rumors of such things. Frost, Jiggie, and myself aren't interested in going overboard either, so if there really is something dangerous that appeared, it was done by another (capable) hacker.

It's really easy to select those games by accident when scrolling through the list or by misclicking.

Swell.

Rogues!

Frost is a fun guy. He's cool and doesn't afraid of anything. xD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwjuPSu3qTM

First, quite literally, the first viewer.

Youtube views only update every hour. I found the video this morning.

It said 1 views when I watched it

Camera gave me a headache lol.

Pretty sad. But that guy raises sc2's number of sales and makes 3rd party servers more players.
And there won't be a patch to fix bnet ever. They just let it slowly die like D1...