Ever have one of those weeks? This has just not been the best couple of days for me or for Valve.

Yes, the source code that has been posted is the HL-2 source code.

Here is what we know:

1) Starting around 9/11 of this year, someone other than me was accessing my email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our email server versus my travel schedule.

2) Shortly afterwards my machine started acting weird (right-clicking on executables would crash explorer). I was unable to find a virus or trojan on my machine, I reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled.

3) For the next week, there appears to have been suspicious activity on my webmail account.

4) Around 9/19 someone made a copy of the HL-2 source tree.

5) At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).

6) Periodically for the last year we've been the subject of a variety of denial of service attacks targetted at our webservers and at Steam. We don't know if these are related or independent.

Well, this sucks.

What I'd appreciate is the assistance of the community in tracking this down. I have a special email address for people to send information to, helpvalve@valvesoftware.com. If you have information about the denial of service attacks or the infiltration of our network, please send the details. There are some pretty obvious places to start with the posts and records in IRC, so if you can point us in the right direction, that would be great.

We at Valve have always thought of ourselves as being part of a community, and I can't imagine a better group of people to help us take care of these problems than this community.

Gabe Newell

et autre chose.. le hl2.exe pèse à peine 205 kb... c pas petit un peu ca?

j'avais vu la news sur un autre forum, mais ce que je comprend pas c'est que seul le code source à été volé.. comment peut-il compiler le jeux avec les texture et model3d? ... c'est peut-être pas vrai, ou tout à été volé...

et autre chose.. le hl2.exe pèse à peine 205 kb... c pas petit un peu ca?

Mmmmm...juste comme ça là faut-il être vraiment "master haxor" pour trouver le code ou c'est assez facile?...Je me demande quel âge a le gars?

en passant, on peut pas jouer à HL2 meme en le compilant

pis si vous pensez un peu, ca ressemble énormément a un publicité stunt

C'est vrai, ça sert strictement à rien pour monsieur madame tout le monde. Des compagnies peuvent par contre être bien contentes de l'avoir sous la main Ou encore des gens qui veulent commencer à faire les bases d'un mod pour HL2.

Ou des gens qui peuvent commencer à trouver des failles et faire des hacks avant même que Half-life 2 sort !

en passant, on peut pas jouer à HL2 meme en le compilant

pis si vous pensez un peu, ca ressemble énormément a un publicité stunt