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Restriction: Service Abnormality


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A friend of mine is having issues connecting. He has never had an issue before, and now is getting PB error = Restriction: Service Abnormality upon connecting. I have looked around and found nothing. I was thinking it could be the antivirus so he shut it off... No go, that didnt work. I also do not see a similar post in the forums so any suggestions? Oh he is running XP.

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Close virus protection it shoold be gone :). often a update or a new one makes trouble like kasperski . use free agv :yahoo

 

 

Tried that did not work. And it is AVG.

 

Also, >>evenbalance>>pbsetup>>run= nothing

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Note #2: This is a restriction kick issued by Punkbuster when it doesn't pass on of the internal tests. We have received reports from users that several versions of Zonealarm may cause this behavior.

 

I would like a list of your running processes. To get them do this:

 

Start the game, minimize it, then follow these steps:

 

Start => Run.. => cmd

 

Then type:

 

tasklist /SVC > tasks.txt

 

That will create a text file with a dumb of your current processes into C:/Documents and Settings/[your user]/tasks.txt. Paste the contents in a new note.

 

From Here

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  • 5 weeks later...

From Here

 

I've had the same problem since I installed the latest Punkbuster update. I tried your "tasklist" but my Windows XP says that command doesn't exist...

 

Is there a way to tell my Defender Pro firewall that Punkbuster is OK to run?!?

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yes you could alow punkbuster communication within your firewall

 

went into the firewall advanced settings and specifically look at settings for punkbuster (a andB) set incomming /outgoing to allowed

Should work

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yes you could alow punkbuster communication within your firewall

 

went into the firewall advanced settings and specifically look at settings for punkbuster (a andB) set incomming /outgoing to allowed

Should work

 

I checked and found ET, Punkbuster a & b all set to "both". But if I turn off Punkbuster it runs fine.

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I completely deleted and reinstalled ET. Even went into system32 folder and deleted PB. When I start it up I get a box from Defender Pro and click ALLOW for ET. Had to go into firewall manually and set allow PB also. Still has the same problem...

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