banned for having program opened
Just to let BF2042 player aware of that you can be banned even without cheating on BF2042.
I was banned on December of last year and since the day I realized that BF2042 staff never cared about my case I started my own research of why the hell I was banned. I have been studying Reverse Engineering and how AntiCheats work... so I ended up with a conclusion.
To hack games you need programs and some of these programs can be tracked by Easy AC and some others antihacks solutions. That seems fair right? Yep kind of... But what they do not tell you is that you can be banned just for having any program labeled as "hack program" on your processes list, does not matter if you are hacking bf2042 or not, if the program was tracked you are busted.
Programs like some debuggers and mostly Cheat Engine. Cheat Engine indeed can be used to reverse engineer games, but most of it users just use it to hack "gold" , "lives", "Experience" , "Skills" on offline games, which is pretty easy. However, if you want to hack a game like BF2042 you need tons of more experience and knowledge than just "type a value and search" to change it later.. to hack a protected game you need to study hard programming, low level programming, assembly, maybe network protocols and so on.
So, what am I trying to say with all this?
If you are just a regular player that have ever used Cheat Engine, or maybe you are a Reverse Engineer student, or you are trying to learn anything that includes debuggers and memory mappers you might be labelled as a Hacker, you doesn´t even have to try to hack BF2042, you just need to have any kind of these programs opened while you open the game... Does not matter if you close it just after you open the game because you were already scanned and your process list was already sent to Easy AntiCheat. That means that you can be banned for an assumption of hacking, they are not even sure that you have hacked, it is just a guess based on a opened program.
I hope this clarify some bans for some unfortunate players out there. I am posting this because EA Games does not give us any reasonable explanation about the Bans and those who were banned without any explanation may find here that this might be your case.
