I have a machine at home which is being used during the day by my brother for general browsing, and which I use at night to play Diablo 2 online.
The problem is, he keeps playing with my Diablo 2 account during the day, and it's getting really annoying.
Is there anyway (other than using an obvious firewall, which he would just disable) to block the ports that Diablo uses (6112 through to 6119) , so he can still browse but not play? Basically, just to stop access to Battle.net.
I'm not adverse to manually altering the necessary files twice a day to stop this! It's become that annoying!
Thanks.
Why don't you like firewall idea? And how come your brother knows your password for your account? What os are you running? If xp or 2k make him separate account w/o admin priveleges so he doesn't fix that back. Again, simplest way would be to change pass on your bettle.net account.
If is set up a firewall, he'll just disable it. No use.
He has a character on the account which he has been playing for ages, so he doesn't want a separate account, and that's also why he knows the password.
System is running Win98.
I just want to be able to block access to battle.net for certain times. I'm not totally against using a firewall, if it will block those ports and is completely transparant.
If it was an icon in the tray he would figure it out, if it just ran without showing an icon anywhere he wouldn't have a clue!
Any ideas?
Two things come to mind... take the cd to work with you, no cd, no play.
Secondly you could copy the .exe file to a floppy disc and then replace the diablo exe with another random exe after giving it the same name. When he tries to run Diablo it will fail, the exe will appear to be intact (especially if you change the icon to match the Diablo one) so should fox him well.
When you want to play copy the exe file from the floppy (or some other well hidden folder on your machine) back to where it was and away you go...
Repeat ad nausium.
If it were an apple you could set up an applescript file to do exactly this at the same time every day for you... I wonder if you could find some third party download for setting up macros that you could then run with task scheduler? Anyone else able to answer that question...
Cheers
hehe. Thanks for those suggestions, but he's a bit more knowledgable than that.
I've already tried taking the cd to work, he downloads a cracked .exe and carries on :(
That would also solve his problem if I replaced the exe - he would just download and overwrite.
Thanks anyway!
This is why I want some transparent way of blocking the port - he'd never ever figure that out!!
There is one of 2 things I would do one enable LMHOST and change the lookup for battle.net to like a webpage you make that says you can’t go there, or I would just go to the advanced options in the tcp/ip protocol and just allow port 80 which is just plain old internet traffic. Let me know how it goes.
Thanks for that..
However, that post was 2 years old..we're not playing Diablo anymore, hehe.