SphereGuard 1.1 Readme
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SphereGuard is a small attempt to fix some serious bug in Sphere .55i. 
It acts as a proxy server and filters the client packet stream in order 
to prevent people from using the most dangerous exploits...

At the moment, it is able to protect against
- Speedhack
- Rename exploit
- PLEVEL exploit
- Client Crash Bug
- Disconnect Bug
- connection flood
- Selfres-Bug
- Dye Bug
- GM Yell Bug
- Fast Loot
- Speech Floot

and allows
- traffic logging
- ban by ip
- ban by account

For using the proxy, Sphere and SphereGuard have to run on two different 
ports, and the client has to be unencrypted. In order to decrpyt your client,
please use one of the following possibilities:
- Injection (http://injection.sourceforge.net/)
- Ignition (http://www.beosil.com/ignition/)
- UO Rice (http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e9425109/UO_RICE.htm)

IMPORTANT: Encrypted Clients won't be able to connect!

I take absolutely no warranty of this program. It's not sure, that there are 
exploits in it, or that it does not work properly! It is a small attempt to
fix some hardcoded bugs in 55i, so don't expect too much :)

Bye
 Tensor

For Suggestions and Comments, please visit the following homepages:

A Small Info Page (please visit it regularly for updates):
- http://www3.taunusstein.net/~lanatic/sphereguard/

The Boards
- http://www.ultima-iris.de
- http://www.jsellnau.us/iris/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
