# You were kicked by Punkbuster

**URL:** <https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830>\
**Category:** PC\
**Created:** [March 5, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830 "2018-03-05T15:49:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vic\_dutchy](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/43a26b/32.png) [@Vic\_dutchy](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Vic_dutchy)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/you-were-kicked-by-punkbuster/104830/309 "2018-04-17T19:13:00Z")

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> [@scrubsbechubs](#):
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> Did any of you recently banned folks recently reinstall windows? I did but I have my game drive on a separate hard drive so I do not have to reinstall all of my games - I just point my new windows install to my separate game drive after I download Origin. Any chance something like this would trigger a “GameHack” violation???

Yes i did exactly the same. I did it even wrong (soemhow the download started again,so probably pointed to the wrong folder) and reinstalled bf4 within the bf4 files so had to remove that version again.

@StarscreamUK,

I was banned by BF4DB for reason of punkbuster ban,nothing else.Maybe i should appeal there,my stats aren’t worrying afaik or can see. The way they do ban,like “this person is banned for this reason,topic closed i.e. case closed” doesn’t give me much hope at forehand.

@BurtTheBlueberry,

I don’t know how else they could have found my new account and linked it than my ip adress.

@Kiplings_Error_3,

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> Hope you have appealed to PB and get in the end a happy outcome to your situation.

Thanks! Yes i have appealed,and the situation is now that i have to supply info like what program/tool could make this happen and they will look,but so far nothing other than what i described above that punkbuster shouldn’t be installed twice in both those folders/files which could lead to .

Their latest apply,

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> We test for commonly used programs, such as Teamspeak and Overwolf. Applications like these would not trigger any false violations.
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> Depending on where and how the services are configured, this could happen, but is not ‘normal’.
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> That being said, simply having PunkBuster service configured incorrectly would not trigger violations. Instead you receive ‘Restriction’ kicks, like what you have provided before. These ‘restriction’ kicks cannot accumulate to a ban either.

I asked about those tools,specifically “overwolf”.The other comment is about punkbuster being within the bf4 files and as well in the redist file.Asked about that as well.Maybe the restriction kicks do accumulate somehow to a ban and are they unaware of it.

@scrubsbechubs,

You talk about “gamehack” as well as “multihack”,so which one is it? Most here are banned for “gamehack 88001”.Multihack is another nr=“#70000s - Multihack”.Explained here,  
[Punkbuster Troubleshooting and Error Codes](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/punkbuster-troubleshooting-and-error-codes/104692/2)

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