Re: Is Blizzard watching us?

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:26:22 +0200, "Thomas J. Boschloo"
<nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Brent Huiberts wrote:
>> JR wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> What does everybody think of the recent posting on Rootkit.com that
>>> suggests that Blizzard installs software that watches the personal
>>> information of people playing their game. The software is designed to
>>> hunt for cheat-ware, but reads the title headings of any window open,
>>> regardless of its relation to WoW. The poster reports that he,
>>> "watched the (program) sniff down the email addresses of people I was
>>> communicating with on MSN, (and) the URL of several websites that I
>>> had open at the time."
>>
>>
>> Oh, please...Who cares?
>
>And in addition to that, if you go MSNing and surfing while playing WoW
>you get what you deserve. The article on rootkit.com reminds me of a
>friend that couldn't install Doom 3 on his computer. Turned out that it
>scans for CloneCD's virtual drive emulation software
><http://www.slysoft.com/en/clonecd.html>. Once you know that you just
>turn it off when you play the game.
>
>That said, WoW has hardly any (none) copy protection into it and I love
>Blizzard for it! No noisy cd players spinning up and down ruining my
>gaming experience..
>
>Regards,
>Thomas

If your CD Player is THAT noisy then maybe you need a new CD Unit???


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