Warden and 'The Governor'

[Cypher]

Yes that is true. I think warden is not aggressive on a mac because the user base is not large enough, and the warden guy is lazy. :P.

Although I must point out that if some form of warden (or an improved version) was implemented on mac, the main reason would be to catch bots, like pocketgnome. Those more aggressive scans would require functions that need root privileges (I think). Simple scans like checking the names of processes could be done, but they would be easy to bypass and hence pointless for blizzard to implement.

It seems crazy to me that you'd need root privileges just to enumerate windows and pull out their or something basic like that.

Frankly, that makes Macs sound LESS secure to me because any software that needs to do ANY work outside its own address space will need root, at which point it can piss all over your system.

At least on Windows I can run WoW as a standard user, so Warden can still do its job, but it doesn't have the opportunity for example to piss all over my PC and touch critical system stuff that it shouldn'e be.

EDIT: Also, there's nothing stopping Blizzard from saying "run WoW as root or you don't get to play".

[jakeftw]

is it true that there is an 'underground' version of isxwarden? :>

[Cypher]

is it true that there is an 'underground' version of isxwarden? :>

Yes. Multiple versions.

[Dragonshadow]

And ITS NOT FOR JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[amadmonk]

You might wanna look into the Bragg vs Linen Labs case.

Interesting, Googling ("Did you mean "Linden Labs"?") brought me to:

Bragg vs Linden Lab - Robreno says no - twice - Second Life Insider

Dunno if that's the present state of the art, but it had this comment:

Along the way Robreno declares the Second Life Terms of Service invalid, and indirectly, it would appear, the Terms of Service of most or all other Virtual Worlds and MMO's by precedent.

Robreno's decision to consider the Second Life Terms of Service as an unenforceable contract of adhesion seems to largely invalidate similar Terms of Service/End User License Agreements, like those of Blizzard, NCsoft, Microsoft and others. Most of these use essentially the same boilerplate terms with individualistic flourishes.

Most of them contain all the points of determination that Robreno uses to determine adhesion, and consequent unenforceability, and on the surface of them you could make a case that they fail to meet each of the tests Robreno applies.

Robreno holds the position that even if the Terms of Service comprises a contract of adhesion, they would still be valid and enforceable if there were any competitors.

Still parsing that competition bit, but I'm glad that TOS'es are being directly challenged in court; this whole "you must agree to a ten-page legal document that no non-lawyer can possibly hope to understand before you get to use the software that you 'bought'" thing is frikkin ridiculous.

[Cypher]

Indeed. That was what I was referring to.

[navywarrior]

Lol I haven't heard of governor in a long time, wow flash form the past. On the up/Down side I found that they have buffed the...well I suppose addon scanning database for all of our lovely exploits and bots. After 4 years of home free exploiting and program/bot total freedom warden has caught up to me and all 3 of my accounts got the lovely 72 hour boot. Beware all speed programs are actively being scanned for.

Now how in fact they are doing the speed hack targeting I can only guess...though the extreme reduction in your games frame rate/latency response to server can trigger a alarm for them to visually check you out. Oh well just thought I would send a little warning since I have 72 hours to figure out how to re-configure my strategies..**cheers**

[navywarrior]

Oh BTW has anyone else noticed a big crack down since yesterday?

[kynox]

Speedhack scans have been known for ages. I'm not going to reveal the process of how they detect you, but its very neat. Think low level.

[foops]

Well, its different

[amadmonk]

Indeed, I've noticed (in my packet monitor) that Warden has become quite chatty. Subjectively, it seems more so than it has been. But... I have no hard data to back that up, just gut feel.

I have yet to dump the Warden packets and see what it's uploading. I'm thinking of stealing (was it Kynox?)'s code and dumping the modules out from the packet stream into a pseudo-DLL, so we can see what the new modules are.

[kynox]

The chatter is no more than normal, my logger is still reporting it at 15s intervals which is how it has always been. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/29438/WardenLogger.jpg

[vrohk]

Good post , kudos man

[kynox]

I don't get the point of this

I don't get the point of you being in this section.

[Suiyasha]

I actually didn't know what Warden did, and up until....a few days ago, didn't even know Warden Existed -looks embarrassed-