Puzzle Pirates – Is your computer tainted?
If your computer claims to be tainted by Three Rings‘ game Puzzle Pirates then you can’t create a new account. There is an easy way to fix this.
- Uninstall Puzzle Pirates.
- Remove hash.dat.
- Install Puzzle Pirates.
- Create account.
I’m not sure where the file lives in Vista but in XP hash.dat is located in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\
I’ll post later why I needed to figure this out.
March 25th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I have a max os x, how do I untaint my computer?
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:17 am
it doesn’t work. when i try to relog, the hash files comes back and it still tells me my computers tainted.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I don’t know, I assume it would be similar to the way you do it in windows.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
It does work, I’ve done it on three different computers. You must be doing something wrong.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Didn’t work for me either. Every time I got rid of it another one popped back up in its place as soon as I tried to log in.
May 20th, 2009 at 10:36 am
I don’t think I left anything out, I’ve done this one two of my Windows computers and they were both able to create accounts.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Yeah, didn’t work for me either…every time I delete hash.dat it pops back up when i try to make and account. I followed the steps too.
July 9th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
it wont let me delete the hash file
July 14th, 2009 at 1:46 am
It does work i’ve done it twice.
July 14th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
I am trying on Windows Vista the hash has the Same Location as the XP.
August 18th, 2009 at 4:53 am
it so works ive done it 6 times i like getting banned XD
September 7th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Okey. Im gonna try that right now… For all of you that it didnt work did u maybe forget to unnistall it first, then delet the hash file, and then reinstall PP.
Hope this helps.
September 7th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Nope it didnt work.. Im using a Vista. Does that have to do anything with it not working?? Thx. The hash file just keeps on coming back and back no matter what i do!!!
October 16th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
it worked the first time
then it didnt work after that it keept poping back
December 9th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
just a thought but maybe open notepad goto file-save as- and type in hash.dat
December 9th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
then replace hash.dat with the one that doesn’t have any information on it
December 24th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
If your tainted and need help untainting we have untainters and people who are experienced in this type of thing and can help you at http://www.globalinfection.net. Thanks.
-Brandon
January 7th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
This is what i do:
1) Close Y!PP
2) delete hash.dat
Located at: Start>Computer>Organize(top left corner-folder and search options)>View Tab>Show All Hidden Folders>C:> Program Data> Scroll all the way down>”hash.dat”
3)Change MAC iP adress.
4) Reload Y!PP
_________________For Vista that doesnt seem to work_________________
January 18th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Hii!
I cant uninstall PP from my pc, can’t find the installer anywhere… someone can help me? plz
January 24th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
i can delete the hash file … but when i wanna create new account then it comes again..why?
January 25th, 2010 at 3:37 am
doesnt work…
March 30th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
SWEET IT WORKS !!!!!!!
April 1st, 2010 at 7:35 am
ok how do i delete my hash.dat. ?
April 10th, 2010 at 10:13 am
Ahoy! Teh untaint Thgnys works! atm i just dont it and i can make accounts
ima mak accounts later Thanx 
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April 10th, 2010 at 10:13 am
Woops that post spazzed up .. i cant spel . my keyboard to old need to get a new one
April 10th, 2010 at 10:16 am
And message to all peeps who read this way to untaint ur pp client . te hash file is gonna come bak bt i know if ur pc tainted it goes in CAPS for me like HASH – Tainted – hash – Untainted Hope this helps
Who eve made stupid foot rules 
May 25th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Works great! If you’re having problems, make sure you uninstall puzzle pirates, delete the hash.dat file (on a mac you could probably just use finder to search for hash.dat) and then don’t try to log into a banned account. If you try to log into a banned account you will just taint your computer again.
June 9th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
I’m not sure why, but it’s not working:
1. I uninstalled puzzle pirates and erased it off my desktop and my recycling bin
2. I deleted the hash file
3. I reinstalled it
4. It didn’t work
June 24th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Sigh. It worked for me… <,<