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After an intense few days of round the clock investigation, we are happy to announce that the RuneMate client is back online and safer than ever! Windows support has been released. Mac and Linux will follow in the next few days. Happy botting.
To review the events of the last few days, RuneScape 3 had a ban wave that affected all RuneScape botting clients. RuneMate's Staff holds itself to a higher standard and as such we voluntarily shut down the client to investigate whether or not any new detection methods was introduced even though the client was fully functional during this time. Our efforts were very fruitful in identifying a number of potential areas that Jagex could be using, most of which have never been previously explored in this scene. We followed a systematic process of rating threat levels for each of these and mitigated them by priority. Additionally, we have added more heuristics to our automated real-time monitoring system that will notify us immediately of any interesting changes Jagex makes.
The investigation ultimately yielded that this was most likely just a seasonal ban wave and not a bot nuke at the code level, like ClusterFlutterer was in the past. Our decision to voluntarily go offline to investigate was proactive and arguably unneeded as it turned out, but we do not regret it one bit. At the end of the day nothing is more important to us than your account's security - usage statistics, advertisement income, or web traffic can't even come close. Also, as a result of the ensuing investigation we are even more confident in the quality and security of the product we are offering you.
Update 11/20: Linux support re-instated. Mac support within the next day or two.
Update 11/21: Mac support re-instated.
To review the events of the last few days, RuneScape 3 had a ban wave that affected all RuneScape botting clients. RuneMate's Staff holds itself to a higher standard and as such we voluntarily shut down the client to investigate whether or not any new detection methods was introduced even though the client was fully functional during this time. Our efforts were very fruitful in identifying a number of potential areas that Jagex could be using, most of which have never been previously explored in this scene. We followed a systematic process of rating threat levels for each of these and mitigated them by priority. Additionally, we have added more heuristics to our automated real-time monitoring system that will notify us immediately of any interesting changes Jagex makes.
The investigation ultimately yielded that this was most likely just a seasonal ban wave and not a bot nuke at the code level, like ClusterFlutterer was in the past. Our decision to voluntarily go offline to investigate was proactive and arguably unneeded as it turned out, but we do not regret it one bit. At the end of the day nothing is more important to us than your account's security - usage statistics, advertisement income, or web traffic can't even come close. Also, as a result of the ensuing investigation we are even more confident in the quality and security of the product we are offering you.
Update 11/20: Linux support re-instated. Mac support within the next day or two.
Update 11/21: Mac support re-instated.
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