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wow is spyware!?!

jaggeh · 2005-10-14 15:18:33

http://www.rootkit.com/blog.php?newsid=358 not very encouraging. glad i never installed it now.

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14-10-2005 4:18pm

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jaggeh

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http://www.rootkit.com/blog.php?newsid=358

not very encouraging. glad i never installed it now.

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#2 19-10-2005 10:13am
Drakar

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I think similar to poker clients, most MMORPGs need to have code which helps protect the entire user base from people using bots. It's trivial to write bots to xp using things like Autoit, however doing this completely destroys the game. On teh intarweb there are lots of automatic WoW clients which play the game.

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#3 22-10-2005 8:50pm
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It does invade privacy but im sure its the onlyway that WOW can makesure that the highest percentage of people on the servers are not cheating.

I dont play WOW i play GuildWars the odd time but i would only have a problem with this if the information was being stored but it seems that its just comparing to known cheating programs etc and not being stored.

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