[NEEDS TESTING] Vista and UAC Immune to Warden?

[Bareno]

WoW Forums -> Again, about The Warden (revamp)

Someone mind testing this? From what I've been thinking, if you do this, It protects you from Warden scanning your programs and such.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this through....

[Timmy420]

It cant scan my computer since im not running wow on admin account.

[nife]

Most of its scanning is inside its own directory/process space anyway

[gogobananas]

I disabled UAC, its a pain in the ass.

[Cal]

If this turns out to be true I'm gonna luff ye.

[Cypher]

Whilst UAC may help against things that don't touch WoW's address space these aren't really the things that are gonna get you banned. Bots, hacks etc all modify memory and/or interface with WoWs address space and these are detectable even with UAC/PG etc.

And it's not just memory modification that is detectable. Hooks can be set and APIs can be used to detect whether mouse/keyboard movement is legit etc. So it's not a failsafe even if you're not directly modifying WoW's address space.

90% of Wardens scans are done within WoWs address space so you won't be stopping much (if anything at all).

[b1ackcat]

I disabled UAC, its a pain in the ass.

QFMFT.

As long as you're reasonably smart about how to use the internet/browse/download files while knowing how to avoid bad things (keep AVG or some anti-virus up, don't download files you don't recognize, don't ever ever ever download keygens for games [most don't work and almost everyone I've found was a keylogger or trojan]), you don't need UAC, and the pop-up every time you do anything drove me mad.

[Ylts]

Tech community Slashdot is going mad over a little present Blizzard apparently included with patch 2.3 this week: a brand new version of Warden (the program Blizzard uses to check for hacks, bots, and keyloggers) that they say effectively gives Blizzard total control over our computers. The technical stuff is a little hard to understand, but apparently Warden is what's called a "polymorphic program"-- that means that it actually hides from anyone looking at it exactly what it's doing and which files it's changing with a random code. Obviously, Blizzard wants to keep the program's activities secret from attackers-- if a hacker knows what Warden does, then he can more easily avoid it.


so go and test your warden!Blizzard's new Warden, and our privacy - WOW Insider