Edit: seams like a bit of work to set up, if you feel hesitant: think back to the runs this bullshit has destroyed. Do it vividly. ;)

This whole post is old info, but I want everyone to know about it, so I repeat it here: The cheat DDDDDDDAAAAAADWD is 9 times more likely to be entered accidentally than any other WASD-cheat combined. It's as if WASD were designed for activating that cheat. ;)

The solution is to use a different keyboard layout that does not have an easy to enter cheat code: The "Dvorak, left handed" layout is 10 times less likely to activate a cheat than the conventional layout, according to Nixixix' simulations.

You can set it up in a way that you only use the "Dvorak...left" layout when you want to - i.e. when playing the game. How to do it? well, system languages differ, but I'll try, I use Windows 7. Windows 8 users: read 4) in my instructions, try to do the same in your OS , use this tutorial for the rest: http://www.howtogeek.com/121169/how-to-change-your-keyboard-layout-in-windows-8/

1)Windows button on the keyboard -> enter "language" -> click "region and language" 2)on top of that window, click "keyboards and languages", then "change keyboards" 3)"add" -> English (USA) -> Dvorak....left.... -> OK 4)on top of the window: advanced settings -> on bottom of the window: change hotkeys -> unless you normally use a USA layout, set the hotkey "change input language" to sth. like "CTRL+Shift"

Since your default layout has not changed (you only added one), you have to press CTRL+Shift ingame to switch to "Dvorak...left" and that will only affect your layout ingame, nowhere else, afaik.

Now, adapt your control settings.^^

the safest way is probably to use "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4" (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=22339) to create a layout where the WASD keys are replace with arrow keys or number or whatever that don't trigger cheats

That's not uncontroversial, using tools feels different than using what is already there.We'd need community consensus that it's allowed.

Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator isn't a tool that runs in the background while you're playing, but the official microsoft tool to create keyboard that you can install among all the others pre-install layout (like the classic english qwerty - USA or Dvorak...left or whatever). this shouldn't be controversial at all.

No responses ... I understand that as consensus that it should be allowed. I am going to upload a layout.

We need keys we can bind with "Gael's" software and that the game ignores.

Ctrl + Shift isn't a rare keycombination for some gamers though. (Crouch + Sprint, Sneak + Jump, whatever). Be wary of accidentally changing your keyboard layout back, it has a bigger chance of killing your run than activating a WASD cheat in the first place.

Gael's tool is official by microsoft, I see 0 reason to disallow it and I've been pondering about it for a while, as long as it's not automated processes done by a single button press (scripting)

Alternatively, you could enable steer with mouse and avoid having to press buttons altogether.