[Austin]

Originally Posted by botmeister

I wish we could find out how it happened so we can avoid making the same mistakes.

No matter, it must be a big mess for those who invested their money and time in the product.

I would have a separate LAN for the developers The source would NEVER be on any machine that was physically connected to the internet.

I would add software firewalls such as Sygate on all PCs in addition to the hardware firewalls. Email attachments would be filtered, decoded and scanned for viruses, and in addition to this they would also be checked for certain key operating system calls every virus needs to connect to the net, just to be sure we catch the newest ones not yet in any virus checker database.

I would also work out something I have been thinking about that I have not seen any where. I would develop a program that monitors processes. It would work like the software firewalls that watch every program trying to get to the net, but instead , this one would watch every process starting up. Once everything was configured it would easily catch weird new process trying to run that were not previously approved.

It really is a shame they were hacked so badly. We probably would have HL2 by now. It is infuriating to get hacked. No one should be involved with this STOLEN source code or game in any way….