Mass ban wave under way???

[cgscott]

i just believe that some people got hit and some people didnt.

Should be some do and some don't.

The ban is still ongoing. Beware.

[djjwdubz]

has any one with a 2006 model been banned ye i have not

my date on the back of the xbox is

2006-02-17

i don't think i will be ban

[felix11]

For info, just something posted today on xbox scene:

>> From pinoycosplay.blogspot.com:

A conversation with a friend who works for a call center that handles an Xbox 360 account has yielded a disturbing truth: Microsoft has started its annual Xbox Live banning spree and it has disabled 600,000 accounts so far in the US and Canada.

The target of the banning spree are mainly people who have modified their consoles to play pirated games. My trusty source says that they have been given instructions to push for a million banned accounts by the time the holidays are over.

Note: This is just a rumour and there's no real way to check or confirm this kinda information. But it points out an interesting discussion, how many consoles do you think MS banned? The site claims 600k are banned already just in US and CA. If we know MS sold about 19M consoles in that region to-date it would mean they already banned about 3.16% of their user-base ...

[EVERS666]

anyway i have just purchase an elite so i have increased ms Xmas sales by 1. wont be flashing this box in a hurry. i have redeemed my gamer tag and all is good there.

[cgscott]

anyway i have just purchase an elite so i have increased ms Xmas sales by 1. wont be flashing this box in a hurry. i have redeemed my gamer tag and all is good there.

Whats the manufacture date?

My mate bought elite brand new yesterday and the manfacture date was october 2009.

This model has the new liteon which has not been hacked yet.

So if you have this manufacture date your right in saying you wont be flashing in a hurry.

[cunny]

Just found this on another site :
"I will post in here and hope my identity is not compromised as I will get into severe trouble.

This is what i do. I am an Xbox Live checks manager and I am the guy who helps run through the data being sent to Xbox Live that has been flagged for banning and was also discussed a very long time ago of what will "bring down all modified Xboxs"

I myself have an Cbox that has been modified because i think it is a crime what they do charging so much when the games don't even cost Microsoft half of what they are getting. Anyway, we have found a way to read the firmware. The NXE update has allowed us to do a check on the current firmware installed on the dvd drive.

The reason this was not flagged was because the code was not active. As you might have heard it was discussed about a "self destruct" code embedded in the NXE update and even before that. This was that code it wasn't a self destruct code but actually a check that was done on all drives.

This check was begun when the update was to "prepare for the last.fm facebook and twitter" this in fact was the code sent out to begin checks on ALL Xboxs.

These checks would send us information on the firmware written to the drive not the exact kind but we did an extensive form of hash check on the drive and could actually find out if it was modified in any way.

This was particularly easy on the lite-on as it was actually manufactured to serve for this purpose as our testing model.

We will not ban all consoles at once and yes all information about you has been collected a long time ago.

We have THOUSANDS of Xboxs reporting bad checks meaning modified firmware. Not all people will be banned and all the bans are done at random times

Multiple checks have been done over this amount of time so we could assure the modified Xboxs were truly modified and not just returning corrupt data.

I am sorry i did not com forward with this information sooner but this information has been critical to the cat and mouse game

This check was also done back in the xtreme days if anyone remembers that when c4eva had to rewrite it to allow the checks to come back clean well this must be done again.

Sorry all for the bannings but it is a natural process and I wish you all luck and hope you do not get banned

If you do await the new firmware that is begin developed and cheers to you all you wanted to know it now you got it


Use live at your own risk now and looks like firmware is detectable but also allot of bad rips out there as ABGX has now been updated.

Best of luck

[smirnoff_rules]

cheers m8 good read .. l for one lost 3 boxes and on the forth cancelled the updates and on rebooting the update just flashed across the screen in a second and the first time l did it on my first banned box took and few minutes ? l told my m8s to try the same at the weekend and we have all been ok so far .. it might of sent mine back as corrupted ?
l went back to 5.3 on a sammy to and played mw2 online before release

[cunny]

Whats the manufacture date?

My mate bought elite brand new yesterday and the manfacture date was october 2009.

This model has the new liteon which has not been hacked yet.

So if you have this manufacture date your right in saying you wont be flashing in a hurry.

Is it the late 83 series or 93 series

[cgscott]

Is it the late 83 series or 93 series

Liteon 93450C Manufacture date September 2009

[micpuk]

The new un-flashable (at the minute) Lite-On's are:

83850c models
93450c models

All of these have a manufacture date of August 2009 onwards.

[felix11]

The new un-flashable (at the minute) Lite-On's are:

83850c models
93450c models

All of these have a manufacture date of August 2009 onwards.

I thought there was a way of flashing the 83850c, I'm sure I've seen a guide on it somewhere....

[smirnoff_rules]

I thought there was a way of flashing the 83850c, I'm sure I've seen a guide on it somewhere....

as far as l know u can flash these and there easy to flash m8

[micpuk]

I thought there was a way of flashing the 83850c, I'm sure I've seen a guide on it somewhere....

The ones manufacturered before August 2009 are easilly done.
The August 2009 are hit and miss (I have one that won't in my elite) and there is a few September 2009 one's around which don't return the key in JF before they went to the 93450c model.