Quote Originally Posted by Suribusi
Actually this is inaccurate. People aren't, and have never been, banned for using IS. They are banned for using naughty extensions that allow for automation among other things. IS is just a platform, like windows.

-S
People have been getting banned left and right in the last few months for simply having IS running when WoW is up, mods or no mods loaded. In Blizzard's view, there is no acceptable reason to have it running while playing WoW. If you were Blizzard, and noticed someone running IS, what possible explanation would you accept before banning them? Hell, it's right on their website, "Automate processes" in big bold print. I don't think saying that it sorts your email in the background will fly.


I also know this first hand because my friend used IS all the time. I could tell it was obviously illegal from the things he was able to do with it(300 yard onscreen radar of other players, herbs, etc? LOL). That's how I recognized the little red tray icon. He didn't bot, just used the radar, and got banned nonetheless. Really sad though, since his guild was WAY up there in pve progression