Can PG block Warden from reading open processes/IDs

My pleasure and no worries

Sounds like you appreciate what could be in the offing, so you won't be caught off guard in that eventuality.

The other approach you could take, it you have a hefty enough disk drive, would be to create a second boot install of your OS on a separate partition and use that as a pure gaming partition. Strip it down with respect to any non-game applications, have some light security installed, and go to town. If you can boot off of a USB drive, it can even be a standalone external drive if desired.

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Virtual PC is payware. As of february 6 VMware Server is available for free.

 

Nice find but I believe that is for servers not PC's Workstation is thier VPC for PC's and is not free-FAQ from the site

Q: How is VMware Server different from Workstation? Will Workstation also be free?
A: VMware will continue to charge for Workstation and has no plans to drop its price. Workstation has unique, advanced features that are not available in VMware Server. These features include memory optimization and the ability to manage multi-tier configurations and multiple snapshots. Workstation is a productivity tool used by developers and technical professionals on an individual PC. VMware will continue to develop compelling features on this product that dramatically streamline software testing and development.

But this is still a nice find

 

You're right, I got guest O/S mixed up with host O/S.

Host Operating Systems:
Runs on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server; Windows Server 2003, Web, Standard, Enterprise and x64 Editions, and Linux server host OSes

 

Glad you did! Otherwise I wouldn't have have a new toy to play with.

 

Re: Any thoughts?

Hooking the mouse so you can play the game The mouse access has to occur somewhere, be it natively or through an optimal path which it's trying to do. Allow it.

Warden is part of a process which you need to grant access in PG. PG won't specifically block it, and personally from what I have read it isn't at all a threat. Why is it a problem exactly ? I do know what it does, it does a check for known cheats. It is NOT as significant as some would have you believe. Privacy risk ? hardly.

 

Re: Any thoughts?

Please note that if MALWARE or some risk comes up we would definitely try to stop it. Stopping something which is actually malicious and has a similar design to Warden is of course a priority, but its not malware by anyones analysis. Find an AV that detects it for example, and I'll be surprised..

 

Re: Any thoughts?

Finally, blocking READ on processes can be used to stop a program getting other programs PATH, but they can still get the process name. We dont intend to block this, and there are ways of getting the path no problems, and trusted programs can install a driver and read memory anyway. Therefore, it really should not cause situations like the PunkBuster one.

Theoretical design additions to block detection of processes and reading of their windows (and even going further than this to protect processes) would be like creating a rootkit for protection purposes. This is a very fine line to tread, we've already seen PunkBuster block us for example and nothing progress there, it did nothing but kill any sales to the gamers - who probably need the protection as much as anyone.