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Flav Vault Frog Offline One Frog to Rule them All! Posts: 9986 Location: Land of the Frogs Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	The New Pando Jan 24^th, 2014 at 4:57pm	Print Post
	here for you all to have fun with, the new Pando shit they have decided we had to bear with : https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/435076-Installing-Akamai-Netsession-In... Basically it's a peer to peer piece of shit that install itself in a sneaky way. First experiment : it hides in the registry : HK_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and it spawns two instances of itself. ( at least on my computer... at a guess maybe an instance by CPU core/Thread... I need to check with my work laptop ) Steps to kill it are so far : - delete the registry entry and kill the processes. It can also be uninstalled since it seems to be a separate install from DDO. Killing the process and deleting the registry entry had no impact on my client update. ( I did it while the client was updating ) Anyway, another proof that there's a problem at Turbine, it's mentioned nowhere in the Release notes that we are going to be hit by yet another piece of craphogware after the awesomiumprocess debacle.

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Starkjade Completionist (i.t.p.) Offline Rogue Scholar Posts: 7082 Location: Canadia Joined: Aug 27^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #1 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 5:02pm	Print Post
	Is this only for the Lama client, or are they using it for the live game already? Edit: Fawk, i didn't think I'd have to remove Pando after DLing the game earlier this month, since they supposedly stopped using it. But nooooope, it was there.
	« Last Edit: Jan 24^th, 2014 at 5:06pm by Starkjade »
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Flav Vault Frog Offline One Frog to Rule them All! Posts: 9986 Location: Land of the Frogs Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #2 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 5:08pm	Print Post
	L-Space Client for now, but since what appears in L-Space will be there on live soon we can expect it's going to hit live. And from the op of the official forum thread it seems that it might already be there on live too for new downloads.

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Starkjade Completionist (i.t.p.) Offline Rogue Scholar Posts: 7082 Location: Canadia Joined: Aug 27^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #3 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 5:12pm	Print Post
	Well, I can't find any trace of it (although I'm not really good at this sort of thing) and I DLed the client ~Jan 5th this year, so it would be very recent if they have started using it.

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rest One Man Wolfpack Offline Posts: 7223 Joined: Aug 13^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #4 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 5:21pm	Print Post
	Those sneaky motherfuckers.


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Flav Vault Frog Offline One Frog to Rule them All! Posts: 9986 Location: Land of the Frogs Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #5 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 5:31pm	Print Post
	restarting the L-Space Client reinstalled it... rewrote the registry key and restarted the fucking exes. At least I have blocked the traffic from this piece of crap in the firewall. nothing can go out ( both in TCP and UDP ) and nothing can come in. I'll have to find how to make sure it doesn't gets launched each time I start the client. the piece of shit resides in c:\users\%USER%\appdata\local\akamai I'm going to try to make that directory unwritable.

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Flav Vault Frog Offline One Frog to Rule them All! Posts: 9986 Location: Land of the Frogs Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #6 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 5:34pm	Print Post
	ok, disabling write on the directory completely fubar the launcher... It gets to failed to initialize Akamai NetSession Interface. time to try pylotro, because I don't want that piece of shit on my computer.

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Starkjade Completionist (i.t.p.) Offline Rogue Scholar Posts: 7082 Location: Canadia Joined: Aug 27^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #7 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 5:45pm	Print Post
	Holy fuck... time to be vocal about this, methinks.

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cdr Horoluth Raider Offline sleetstormer Posts: 2813 Joined: Dec 29^th, 2011	Re: The New Pando Reply #8 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 5:50pm	Print Post
	Since Pando went out of business on 8/31, they needed to find a new way to save on download costs, and this is it.


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Flav Vault Frog Offline One Frog to Rule them All! Posts: 9986 Location: Land of the Frogs Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #9 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 6:02pm	Print Post
	well it doesn't impact the downloads, since I killed the processes and removed the registry key while the client was upgrading. As a side note anybody knows where I can find Pylotro ( and the related python packages ) for Windows ? For the time being since there's this piece of shit in the L-Space client and the character copy tool is broken I won't connect to L-Space... But I need to explore fully the pylotro option before this piece of shit goes live.

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Mr Titan Demolisher Offline Posts: 361 Joined: Apr 20^th, 2011	Re: The New Pando Reply #10 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 8:16pm	Print Post
	rest wrote on Jan 24^th, 2014 at 5:21pm: Those sneaky motherfuckers. This


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NOTpopejubal Epic Poster Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 4096 Location: Let go or get dragged. Joined: Apr 17^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #11 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 8:57pm	Print Post
	This makes me sad.


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Laraeph Waterworks Kobold Offline Posts: 131 Joined: May 4^th, 2012	Re: The New Pando Reply #12 - Jan 25^th, 2014 at 11:56am	Print Post
	Flav wrote on Jan 24^th, 2014 at 6:02pm: well it doesn't impact the downloads, since I killed the processes and removed the registry key while the client was upgrading. As a side note anybody knows where I can find Pylotro� ( and the related python packages ) for Windows ? For the time being since there's this piece of shit in the L-Space client and the character copy tool is broken I won't connect to L-Space... But I need to explore fully the pylotro option before this piece of shit goes live. The "official" server hosting pyLotro went down a few months ago, but I have found this post (in French) still linking to valid URLs (both to an already "compiled" .exe, and the Python sources).
	« Last Edit: Jan 25^th, 2014 at 11:56am by Laraeph »

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cdr Horoluth Raider Offline sleetstormer Posts: 2813 Joined: Dec 29^th, 2011	Re: The New Pando Reply #13 - Jan 25^th, 2014 at 12:16pm	Print Post
	Someone put pylotro up on github a few months back: https://github.com/Lynx3d/pylotro


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Flav Vault Frog Offline One Frog to Rule them All! Posts: 9986 Location: Land of the Frogs Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #14 - Jan 25^th, 2014 at 1:06pm	Print Post
	Thanks it seems to work fine.

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mystafyi Abbot Raider Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 836 Joined: Nov 10^th, 2010	Re: The New Pando Reply #15 - Jan 25^th, 2014 at 1:58pm	Print Post
	cdr wrote on Jan 25^th, 2014 at 12:16pm: Someone put pylotro up on github a few months back: https://github.com/Lynx3d/pylotro ty sir.


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AtomicMew Horoluth Raider Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 2073 Joined: Jan 12^th, 2011	Re: The New Pando Reply #16 - Jan 25^th, 2014 at 3:14pm	Print Post
	Is the update function working on pylotro? Every time I need to update, I run pylotro first (since it doesn't hang) but need to finish it off with the official launcher :< very strange


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AtomicMew Horoluth Raider Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 2073 Joined: Jan 12^th, 2011	Re: The New Pando Reply #17 - Jan 25^th, 2014 at 3:19pm	Print Post
	Btw, another good resource is here: https://github.com/n0la?tab=repositories This is the guy that wrote the command line python launcher and combat logger.


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Flav Vault Frog Offline One Frog to Rule them All! Posts: 9986 Location: Land of the Frogs Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #18 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 10:17am	Print Post
	Interesting... I bug reported the installation of this piece of crapware and I've just received a mail from QA asking me for more details : Quote: Greetings Notrealflav Brokencopytool In order to analyze the issue you describe, it would be helpful if you would be willing to provide some additional information. Where did you download the client from? What operating system are you using? Have you installed any other software on the computer lately? When was the last time you updated the Lamannia client before this? Sadly the answers are obvious, except maybe the OS. - Turbine - Windows 7 x64 - Nope. - The Last time L-Space was up. That was before x-mass IIRC. So I really recommend that everybody bug report it... If we are enough to consider that a bug they might react.

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majmalphunktion Major Motherfucking Malphunktion Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 283 Joined: May 20^th, 2011	Re: The New Pando Reply #19 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 3:15pm	Print Post
	Half baked code. Wasn't supposed to be turned on at all. Reverted in the next lama build.


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Aeolwind HERALD OF HATE Offline DDO: More broken than peanut brittle Posts: 2074 Location: Sarlona Joined: Apr 13^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #20 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 3:20pm	Print Post
	majmalphunktion wrote on Jan 27^th, 2014 at 3:15pm: Half baked code. Wasn't supposed to be turned on at all. Reverted in the next lama build. Akamai or the Charcopy Tool?


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arko Waterworks Kobold Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 101 Joined: Jan 22^nd, 2014	Re: The New Pando Reply #21 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 3:27pm	Print Post
	Aeolwind wrote on Jan 27^th, 2014 at 3:20pm: Akamai or the Charcopy Tool? Akamai


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Aeolwind HERALD OF HATE Offline DDO: More broken than peanut brittle Posts: 2074 Location: Sarlona Joined: Apr 13^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #22 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 3:39pm	Print Post
	arko wrote on Jan 27^th, 2014 at 3:27pm: Akamai Damnit, I'd like to, ya know, log the hell on and Run HH. I'm crestfallen it is epic only though.


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Flav Vault Frog Offline One Frog to Rule them All! Posts: 9986 Location: Land of the Frogs Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #23 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 5:30pm	Print Post
	majmalphunktion wrote on Jan 27^th, 2014 at 3:15pm: Half baked code. Wasn't supposed to be turned on at all. Reverted in the next lama build. Interesting and good to know. Now the char copy tool needs to be fixed so that I can spend my time actually doing some real test instead of testing how to bypass half baked code.
	« Last Edit: Jan 27^th, 2014 at 5:31pm by Flav »
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Residue Korthos Resident Offline down trodden, with the rest of you refuse Posts: 85 Joined: Dec 20^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: The New Pando Reply #24 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 6:04pm	Print Post
	Why can't they just slap a torrent up somewhere instead of having us (unintentionally) installing pieceofshitware? Res
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