Originally Posted by
Dawnseven
So this happened...
Account Action: Suspended until 2019/10/26
Offense: Use of Bots or Third-Party Automation Software
Relax yourself. It wasn't against my account, but rather my 17 year old's. As a parent, I have 2 issues:
1. Of course the kid swears up, down, left and right that he never did any such thing. That's what 95% of botters say, so I give his claim no real weight. That said, the kid hates leveling, plays just one character, has a small group of guild friends that he occasionally PvPs and/or raids with (when they're bored and re-activate their WoW accounts), and otherwise, just logs in to do a warfront if it's up, and will sometimes do a large RP event if someone invites him. I think he has about 70K gold to his name, doesn't grind rep, doesn't go farming, and doesn't play the auction house as those things are horrifically boring (and which lead his general lack of funds, but that's another discussion). In short, he doesn't engage in things that bots are usually FOR as far as *I* know. And with THAT said too, I don't believe Blizzard just pulls this kind of thing out of their ass either. He MUST have done something whether he's willing to admit to it or not or he wouldn't have been suspended.
2. I'd like to make this a teachable moment, but the Blizzard notifications are terribly vague and I can't seem to pry any additional information out of them. As someone who has never even considered using a bot, I don't know anything about them. Is there something I can look for on his machine? Am I looking at all .exe files? Is something have to installed in a WoW directory or something? He barely even uses addons, and the few that he has (a whopping total of like 6) I recognize (DBM, etc.) and know he gets from Curse. Even IF (big if) he's telling the truth and he didn't install something, or he installed something that he's convinced had some other purpose (I don't know what, something RP related maybe -- humor me) how can I make sure his machine is purged of it before he reactivates his account in the fall (IF he does). I wouldn't want Warden to pick up something again (and again, apologies, I don't know how things work) and perma-ban him then simply because he still had whatever it considers offensive.
Any thoughts/wisdom you can provide?