
To be specific, it usually looks for aimbots, map hacks, and any other utilities that could possibly give you an unfair advantage by breaking the rules of a multiplayer game.

Its memory scanning technology works like an antivirus program as it objectively scrutinizes your computer system for any potential cheating program. Dozens of titles, millions of players, and hundreds of thousands of cheaters have proven its monitoring, detecting, and banning capabilities. This small effort started in September 2000 when issues of online cheating are massively growing. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.PunkBuster's anti-cheat system supports tons of major proprietary game engines from well-known game developers such as Electronic Arts Inc., Ubisoft, Sony Online Entertainment LLC, and many more. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.

This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
