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My father doesnt want me playing illarion. he says becouse its peer to peer and it will give anyone access to our computer to do what they wish to it.

My question: Is there any way that illarion coulld have ANY ill effects on my computer. Viruses, trojans, worms, data loss, identity theft, WHATEVER.

Im not gonna pretend im a computer genius (i dont even know what some of that stuff is >< but yea.

Has anyone else ever had computer malfunctions from playing illarion?

Help please...i barely got illarion back and i dont want to loose it! (that sounds bad ><)

No. I've been playing for a very long time, nothing wrong. P2P are things like Kazaa, Shareazza, BearShare, etc.

Illarion isn't one of those.

definatly not p2p networking with Illarion. my brain can't fathom how that would even make sense?

I'm sure the technical staff could give you more information, but I have been playing illa for about 9 months now and have never had any troubles at all.

You CANT get viruses or such from illarion, as far as I know.

Illarion isnt a peer to peer conected game, your characters and such are stored on the server and thustly you connect to the server not to other players. a game such as gunz is a p2p connection.

Talaena Landessi wrote:My father doesnt want me playing illarion. he says becouse its peer to peer and it will give anyone access to our computer to do what they wish to it.

This is absolutely not true.

P2P systems are usually filesharing tools (such as emule and so on) where one user has a direct internet connection to your computer (well, the client of one computer and the client of the other computer, that is).

In Illarion, you connect to the Illarion server on one port (3008), it's exactly the same as surfing in the internet with your web browser. It's even less dangerous than surfing: By surfing the web, you can, depending on your browser and your configuration, infect your computer with a virus because it is possible to have files copied to your computer and executed there (which is what a virus or trojan is all about: A program is copied to your computer and executed there).

Illarion (the game) will not create executable files on your computer (it will create files on it, such as the names your char knows and the map, which are stored locally at everyones computer).

So, to sumarize that:
What IS dangerous is not "P2P", but ways to create files on your computer and execute them. This could happen by e-mails (if you're using a bad e-mail-client such as outlook, which is configured badly (like, execute files automatically, that was default configuration in previous outlook version; I could send you a virus and your outlook would execute it without request, thanks microsoft!)), by surfing the web and so on. Illarion runs with java and is completely save, there is no way we could create "bad" files on your computer and execute them there.

If it were like that: Illarion is officially a registered society in germany, your father may sue us to death if something like that happens.

Obviously, and dangerously, he has no idea of what could do harm to a computer.

Martin

I dont know to much but I dont think java games cannot give viruses or anything.

Talaena Landessi wrote:My father doesnt want me playing illarion. he says becouse its peer to peer and it will give anyone access to our computer to do what they wish to it.

My question: Is there any way that illarion coulld have ANY ill effects on my computer. Viruses, trojans, worms, data loss, identity theft, WHATEVER.

Illarion is not a peer-to-peer application. Playing Illarion does not make you more vulnerable to attacks in any way than you are while receiving your mail.

The Illarion client is secured with signatures and strong encryption, there is no chance for a trojan or virus to come in this way.

Thank you all, but funny enough he bit his own tongue and shrunk when i let him read this and then made up a new excuse= internet connection is to slow to play ((which it isnt, my internet and games all run fine.)) But i will continue to play anyways- see you IG

You'll notice it when the connection is too slow.

Martin

Talaena Landessi wrote:Thank you all, but funny enough he bit his own tongue and shrunk when i let him read this and then made up a new excuse= internet connection is to slow to play ((which it isnt, my internet and games all run fine.)) But i will continue to play anyways- see you IG

My brother is on a 28.8K modem. (Oh oh....), but I can run Illa on his computer fine, because it's your computer, not your internet con.