On October 30 of 2009 a Ban Wave hit #fw.  This page will document bans.
Cases:
Case 1:  1.51 FW. Banned.  Friend of 

Case 2: <gamerscom> modded twice with console power, played borderlands, buddy played borderlands with same release and is fine. running 1.51, banned by 9:30 this morning when I tried to get on. no one else seemed to be banned when I checked fw. came back later and the place was in a riot with people getting banned. looks like there doing it in different time chunks. I dont play any games before release dates
Case 3: <igiddyuup>  I have a friend what was banned. NOt sure which drive he has (either benq or lite-on) with 1.6 The most recent games he played where madden, odst, and nba 2k10

Case 4:  <KevinD> just checking in to report a ban. no pre-release, all wave 2/3. ixtreme 1.6 all games full stealth with abgx cod4/cod:waw/halo3/odst/halo3:mythic/ufc 2009 were the only games i played

Case 5: <[tk]> I got banned this afternoon, using LiteOn with 1.6 only played CoD 4 and HAWX on live retail HDD and both cds still pass abgx verification
<[tk]> I've never played a game pre-release and Ive only played verified games on this console

Case 6: B-Z Have a box that was just banned XBOX 360 Elite

Case 7: BANNED <+sta0g> been playing nothing but madden 10
<+sta0g> since august

Case 8: <GameFroze> i just put in retail game hoping to get unban.. lol fu M$ BANNED

Case 9: <CorteX`> a mate of mine just modded his box a few hours ago, went on live with a stealth checked copy of gears of war 2 and got banned just now, it was the only copied game he player online so far ! how is that for confirmation.. i'm telling you they can somehow detect modified firmwares now.. BANNED

Theories
 

<Netham45> What I've noticed so far is that it's all 1.51> bans, no 1.5< bans which tells me it's something with Wave3 emulation. There was also speculation of bans from relases by 'USA', primarially circulating around their release of Badlands or whatever that new game is.

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