It certainly is in their best interest to do so. My personal hope is that MS makes the needed changes to make its COMPATIBILITY SELECTIONS work as one would expect as they have stated - should be compatible with the majority of NEW games. This was the whole point here in bringing up the disparity between XP-SP3 operation, and Win7 operation with XP-SP3 mode selected to run the game. Lots of errors for punkbuster are due to: Changed game content, PB client can not update. The fact that COD4 with Punkbuster works perfectly under XP-SP3 as its op system, says that the compatibility selection the user makes IS NOT FUNCTIONAL to the extent necessary to be NEW game friendly. If you have to do a manual update of Punkbuster, make sure the client is running in Admin mode as well. In this case, COD4 is a newer game, a VERY popular one, that DOES NOT RUN under the XP-SP3 compatibility mode (as selected by the user) as one would expect it to, based on MS commentary.

However in cod4 exist another RCE, which is also dangerous. In cod4 this problem hardly ever existed, because you would have to run a listen server and a hacker would need to have rcon to do any damage. It certainly is in their best interest to do so.Hello All - the core reason I started this thread, aside from the obvious failure of Punkbuster to be compatible with Win7 RC, was that MS advertises and includes a COMPATIBILITY capability which, they state, should provide compatibility with NEWER programs. The hacker could easily send malicious packets to host PC by overflowing some buffers, so you could easily send any malware you wanted to. The fact that COD4 with Punkbuster works perfectly under XP-SP3 as its op system, says that the compatibility selection the user makes IS NOT FUNCTIONAL to the extent necessary to be NEW game friendly. Hello All - the core reason I started this thread, aside from the obvious failure of Punkbuster to be compatible with Win7 RC, was that MS advertises and includes a COMPATIBILITY capability which, they state, should provide compatibility with NEWER programs.

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