Saturday, January 30, 2016

Non-Asian anti-cheat measures VS. South Korean anti-cheat measures

Anti-cheat Programs: This is non-Asian measures
Anti-cheat Programs: This is South Korean measures

1. Blizzard's Warden (1.0 / 2.0)
  • Known to scan all open windows as well as processes, plus its contents
  • Bans you permanently 
  • Once you get busted, there goes all your money
  • At least it's a part of client so it doesn't run unless you open World of Warcraft
2. Hi-Rez Studio "HiUpdateService"
  • Runs on background at startup
  • If this is not running properly, you can NEVER play any games by HRS
  • Bans you even if the game is not running
3. Steam VAC
  • Runs when you play Valve games and closes immediately when you exit
  • Runs only on select games
  • Only bans you for using cheats in online games (Not LAN games, with some exceptions)
4. Even Balance PunkBuster
  • Runs on background but only checks for things when the game is running
  • Bans you if the tool is running and/or memory addresses are altered in a way the player benefits from it
5. nProtect GameGuard
  • Ultra aggressive, if tampered while running, produces BSoD by manually initiating 0xDEADDEAD or System Protection
  • Known to cause many programs to fail
  • Hogs memory like a leaky program
  • Ultra crappy, does not protect users, only the game company (Shame on you Nexon)
6. XignCode3 and its offsprings
  • Checks for Process Managers too, and bans you if you're busted 3 times in a row
  • Was vulnerable to "Terminator" attack where user terminates XignCode3's processes while the game was running, rendering anti-cheat useless
  • Aggressive, now checks for AutoHotKey too
  • Terminates game if found "cheating", and produces garbage log that can be only read by the company who made this piece of shit
  • If something is watching service (not reading though), terminates game and gives you a yellow card
  • Bans you if you use Sandboxie to run games
7. (Not anti-cheat but well, why not) Themida
  • Glitches out very well
  • Whines to you about nonexistent "debuggers" when running Process Monitor
  • Supreme anti-tamper ability, but also makes it VERY hard to debug it
8. AhnLab HackShield
  • Piece of shit
  • Scans for rootkits and keyloggers only
  • Basically useless for real threats that might happen while running games

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