RE: World of Warcraft hackers using Sony BMG rootkit

["Henderson, Dennis K." <Dennis.Henderson () umb com>]

> Want to cheat in your online game and not get caught? Just 
> buy a Sony BMG copy protected CD.
>
> World of Warcraft hackers have confirmed that the hiding 
> capabilities of Sony BMG's content protection software can 
> make tools made for cheating in the online world impossible 
> to detect. The software--deemed a "rootkit" by many security 
> experts--is shipped with tens of thousands of the record 
> company's music titles.
>
> Blizzard Entertainment, the maker of World of Warcraft, has 
> created a controversial program that detects cheaters by 
> scanning the processes that are running at the time the game 
> is played. Called the Warden, the anti-cheating program 
> cannot detect any files that are hidden with Sony BMG's 
> content protection, which only requires that the hacker add 
> the prefix "$sys$" to file names.

I wonder if cheaters are looking at this to subvert the punkbuster
software that many online games use... 








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