Relic

Before anybody has a go at me for putting this in a wrong post, im new here and i know nothing about scripting or programming or nothing. anyways i noticed that alot of people hack and i wanted a shot at my own little program that could stop this. i was thinking you could use a program to open the data file and delete or insert a line of code that could block a hack or cheat out and make the active cheats/hacks out of action. i tried to use notepad or something and it comes out in dodgey characters so ofc it doesnt work in there - perhaps if they were words of code then you could delete the appropriate part - anyhow this post is dragging on. i was wondering if anybody could tell me how to approach the situation and which programs to use and what type of codes or scripts to involve in any editing etc. thanks for the help.

(ow yeh btw i will learn all that is necessary to do this as long as i am helped along the way. if anybody wants to help me my msn/email is linear.relic@gmail.com)

Arevos

What do you mean by "data file"? Programs store data in files, but the format this data is stored in differs from program to program. Likewise, the way in which this data is used differs from program to program. It would be impossible to write a program that would be able to detect tampering to a generic data file, because the program has no way of knowing what format that data is in, how it's arranged, and how it's going to be used.

Did you have any data in specific in mind?

Relic

well. i thought a specific thing such as the old "sv_cheats 0" for counter strike. maybe someway to alter the players from being visually hacked, like the cvar changes and stuff, brightness changes - keeping their game safe, perhaps lobbed into a .exe file? can that be done

Sane

Unless you have control over the server or the computer that's using the hack, there's virtually no way to prevent them from using most hacks. There could be odd exceptions where you're just preventing it with your own hack, but you can't stop it from happening without certain privileges I presume.