WSOCK32 Issues

[Rogean]

Due to the recent flagging of wsock32 as a virus, I have temporarily disabled the requirement for it to log in.

When we were originally looking for ways to load our own code into the client (mainly for Classic EQ Changes, but additionally to keep a watchful eye on any programs hacking the client's memory), we originally tried to use one of the Direct X DLL Files. This created a confliction with WinEQ2, because it was also using the same method to hook into and take control of the window instance. Secrets offered the alternative to use wsock32 and at the time we did not think it mattered what DLL we used. Some people have claimed that wsock32 is dangerous because it has more access to the system than other DLL files. Whether this is true or not, our version of that file did nothing but proxy the calls and load eqgame.dll. I will be posting the source code of that file in the second post for any that are interested; it will be absolete now though.

I am already working on using a different DLL File within the Titanium installation itself, and is not a system file (and not that it would matter what type of file it is for our uses.. what matters most is how we use that file, and our needs do not require a file with any sort of access to the system; that is not our intention. We simply alter the client to behave more classic like while keeping an eye over it as stated).

Feel free to delete wsock32.dll and eqgame.dll from your directories for the time being, they aren't needed to log in. We will be introducing a new DLL File in the patch this weekend as a replacement.