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Tyler
10-12-2005, 01:14 PM
"I recently performed a rather long reversing session on a piece of software written by Blizzard Entertainment, yes - the ones who made Warcraft, and World of Warcraft (which has 4.5 million+ players now, apparently). This software is known as the 'warden client' - its written like shellcode in that it's position independant. It is downloaded on the fly from Blizzard's servers, and it runs about every 15 seconds."

Read more. (http://www.rootkit.com/blog.php?newsid=358)

Jason425
10-12-2005, 11:30 PM
wow... glad I don't buy their crap..