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King Hadu 2015 年 9 月 14 日 上午 10:38
Warning SMITE installed Spyware on my PC [DEV Response on Pg 2]
If you check your task manager, you will see something starting with "HI" even after removing this game it was still there, doing some sort of analyzing of my PC and scanning for various files and it claims to improve performance but everyone knows these things are malware and spywar which actually slows down your PC.

There is NO reason for this malware garbage to remain here after removing this game scanning my PC for who knows what information. This garbage should have been removed when this game was deleted!!

Just a friendly warning to users here I do not recommend this game and I have given it a 1 star rating because of this.
最后由 King Hadu 编辑于; 2015 年 9 月 14 日 下午 12:14
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Beans 2015 年 9 月 14 日 上午 11:43 
I think I know what this person is talking about. It is hi-rez's anti hack thing. Which runs even when you aren't playing Smite.. kind stupid but eh..
Gibby 2015 年 9 月 14 日 上午 11:44 
引用自 King Hadu
引用自 A Random
What is the name of the software you say?

If I remember correct it started with the word Hirez

It should be in a folder named Hi or Hirez in your all programs, a google search brought up the name and linked it back to Hirez website.
If you dont give us the exact name, we cant do ♥♥♥♥...
最后由 Gibby 编辑于; 2015 年 9 月 14 日 上午 11:44
King Hadu 2015 年 9 月 14 日 上午 11:47 
引用自 Nico Nico Ni
I think I know what this person is talking about. It is hi-rez's anti hack thing. Which runs even when you aren't playing Smite.. kind stupid but eh..

Aah its possible that this is what it was. I have since deleted Smite and that software when I found out of its existence after I had Exited the game and found it to still be running and using CPU and RAM resources even though the game isn't running so I consider this garbage malware/spyware.

Not only it being a possible anti hack but it specifically said it was scanning my PC to boost performance, to me this is as bad as spyware and malware I don't want this garbage to alter any files to boost any performance for me I have my PC clean the way i want it thank you very much!!

So off hand I cannot recall exactly what it was but yes I believe it could be the Anti hack. It can be found in a Hirez folder in all programs.

While my ESET Smart Security did NOT pick it up as anything harmful. I do not want any software scanning files on my PC after I have deleted the game and most importantly not a software that has anti uninstallation measures built in.

I find this sketchy. Not only that, this particular piece of software was using 48MB of RAM, this isn't like punkbuster or battleeye that uses a fraction of the resources to run and actually exits when you exit battlefield or dayz
最后由 King Hadu 编辑于; 2015 年 9 月 14 日 上午 11:50
poictesme 2015 年 9 月 14 日 上午 11:53 
Guys, guys, it's not spyware, it's the "Hi-Rez Studios Authenticate and Update Service" and the reason you cannot stop it like you would a regular programme is because it runs as a Service.
It comes with the game, that's how the devs keep the game updated and fight cheaters.
You don't like it, fine, but don't panic, don't panic.
King Hadu 2015 年 9 月 14 日 上午 11:59 
引用自 poictesme
Guys, guys, it's not spyware, it's the "Hi-Rez Studios Authenticate and Update Service" and the reason you cannot stop it like you would a regular programme is because it runs as a Service.
It comes with the game, that's how the devs keep the game updated and fight cheaters.
You don't like it, fine, but don't panic, don't panic.

This is what it was. Thanks for pointing it out.

It behaved very suspicious, there is no reason for it to continue running after you have exited smite or hell there is no reason for it to exist after you have DELETED smite from your steam library.

I consider this spyware since they insist on keeping this software running and scanning your PC after you have DELETED the game. They have NO business scanning the files on my PC AFTER I DELETED SMITE.

And furthermore the Anti Uninstallation features built in to make deleting this garbage difficult has turned me away from this company.
最后由 King Hadu 编辑于; 2015 年 9 月 14 日 上午 11:59
Beans 2015 年 9 月 14 日 下午 12:00 
引用自 poictesme
Guys, guys, it's not spyware, it's the "Hi-Rez Studios Authenticate and Update Service" and the reason you cannot stop it like you would a regular programme is because it runs as a Service.
It comes with the game, that's how the devs keep the game updated and fight cheaters.
You don't like it, fine, but don't panic, don't panic.

Only problem is it runs when you aren't playing Smite which is very fishy and suspicious. Why do they care what I do when I am not playing their game.
ZeroDirtyDeeds 2015 年 9 月 14 日 下午 12:01 
引用自 Nico Nico Ni
引用自 poictesme
Guys, guys, it's not spyware, it's the "Hi-Rez Studios Authenticate and Update Service" and the reason you cannot stop it like you would a regular programme is because it runs as a Service.
It comes with the game, that's how the devs keep the game updated and fight cheaters.
You don't like it, fine, but don't panic, don't panic.

Only problem is it runs when you aren't playing Smite which is very fishy and suspicious. Why do they care what I do when I am not playing their game.
thats because you can alter the files while you are outside the game
poictesme 2015 年 9 月 14 日 下午 12:03 
No need to look for malicious intent when incompetence is a perfectly reasonable explanation.
I agree with you that this and many other games should run a tight ship when it comes to interacting with their customer's machines. Microsoft is not setting a great example at the moment though, so let us not hold our collective breath.
HirezPonPon  [开发者] 2015 年 9 月 14 日 下午 12:04 
It is likely the Hi-Rez Studios Ahtenticate and Update Service which should be uninstalled when going through the standard uninstall process. Are you deleting the folder with Smite installed, going through Steam Uninstall, or going through the Diagnostic Tool uninstall?

If you could also provide us where you saw information about it being a tool to 'boost fps'. The tool itself is used for updating, authenticating, and anti-cheat detection for SMITE so I am not sure where the boost FPS came from.
King Hadu 2015 年 9 月 14 日 下午 12:06 
引用自 Nico Nico Ni

Only problem is it runs when you aren't playing Smite which is very fishy and suspicious. Why do they care what I do when I am not playing their game.

Sir it goes a step ABOVE that in fishy and suspicious.

It runs and scans your PC even AFTER you have DELETED Smite. And it has anti uninstallation features to make it difficult to delete. It behaves exactly like those malware you get from free software on downloadforge websites etc perhaps its harmless but there is no reason it should behave so suspicions and fishy
最后由 King Hadu 编辑于; 2015 年 9 月 14 日 下午 12:07
HEX: LocalLadyboy 2015 年 9 月 14 日 下午 12:08 
As a side note to this. When i was trying to delete the old smite folder to install the steam version it kept telling me part of it was running and could not be deleted, even after restarting the computer..
Maybe if you knew more about computers, you would have opened task manager, deleted the process and uninstalled. Now, go back to league of legends.

You won't be missed.
ZeroDirtyDeeds 2015 年 9 月 14 日 下午 12:09 
引用自 Jannina
As a side note to this. When i was trying to delete the old smite folder to install the steam version it kept telling me part of it was running and could not be deleted, even after restarting the computer..
Maybe if you knew more about computers, you would have opened task manager, deleted the process and uninstalled. Now, go back to league of legends.

You won't be missed.
well said and that king guy can also leave
King Hadu 2015 年 9 月 14 日 下午 12:10 
引用自 HirezPonPon
It is likely the Hi-Rez Studios Ahtenticate and Update Service which should be uninstalled when going through the standard uninstall process. Are you deleting the folder with Smite installed, going through Steam Uninstall, or going through the Diagnostic Tool uninstall?

If you could also provide us where you saw information about it being a tool to 'boost fps'. The tool itself is used for updating, authenticating, and anti-cheat detection for SMITE so I am not sure where the boost FPS came from.

It is possible I could have been wrong about the "boost fps" part or I saw wrong, I will take your word for it that it does not have this.

I did not pay much attention to it since I did get angry when I saw how fishy it looked and how it behaved, kept running even after the game was exited and DELETED.

Maybe you all mean no harm, but seriously you guys have to look into that software. It does NOT behave very normal at all. No reason for it to continue to run after you exited or deleted the game, it gives the impression of a malware that you get from those sites like sourceforge etc when downloading free programs
Gralzeim 2015 年 9 月 14 日 下午 1:48 
Only thing I'm seeing that still runs after Smite is closed down on my end is HiPatchService.exe, which if I had to guess, is a component of their peer to peer patching system. It's currently doing nothing, no cpu activity, no network activity, no disk activity, and only using 70-ish megs of RAM.

Really not that uncommon for a smaller online game to have a service like that that stays open in the background till it's needed for patching. Should note that it won't do anything without the launcher open. I'm fairly certain this is what you were seeing, if it was the authenticate and update service, not sure why that was running without the game running on your end.

And I'm not sure why it would stay on your system after uninstalling the game, only thing I can think of is something got messed up on your end that caused things to not be removed properly (something prevented the uninstaller from killing services which would prevent them from being uninstalled).

Honestly I wouldn't worry, this is a fairly normal thing these days. Is it something I'm super keen on? Not really, but I mean, even Apple has stuff that runs even if iTunes isn't running. Main reason is keeping a small component of a program in memory helps improve program startup times, as part of the program is already in RAM. Less to load in from the (usually mechanical and thus slow by comparison) hard drive.
最后由 Gralzeim 编辑于; 2015 年 9 月 14 日 下午 1:50
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