I recently updated my Call of Duty for online play and alot of the games I wanted to enter had some wierd symbol (looks like a guy crossed out) and a hammer. When one or the other was marked with an X and I tried to enter it would tell me to install that Punk Buster.

What is it?

I believe Punkbuster is "anti cheating" software, keeps people from using mods and power-ups...

Punk Buster is a program used to help take care of online cheaters. It usually works by checking your hd for files that may be used for cheating. Not 100% cheater free, but for the most part servers using it cut down on the cheaters much more than a server that doesn't use it. Download it, it will benefit you.

Sounds like a good idea.

So this thing isnt some kind of spyware or anything right? No ones had any problems with it or because of it?

No its all good. Like they said its just a anti cheating software for online gaming.

I think Punk Buster has been around awhile. I remember using it in my online Counter Strike days. Back then it didn't do a great job keeping games cheat free. Im curious if it works well for other online games now?

Yeah - punk buster has been around for quite awhile... and it has never been 100% effective. Early versions were buggy, but new versions are integrated into the games and work fine.

Yea RTCW uses it and for the most part it works fine

a lot of online games use punk buster to kill cheaters. it is just too bad it doesn't bitch slap them in real life too.

Cool, I gotta d/l this than


And buy that DVD