It seems if you point out the bad side of Gameguard and what the potential of such software is, then the entire thread will get deleted.  I pointed out some blatent facts in another thread, and now the thread is GONE.  Not even locked, just GONE.  One more reason NOT to buy this game.  You go right ahead if you want some company looking over your shoulder all the time.

Originally posted by RaVeR_Dave

It seems if you point out the bad side of Gameguard and what the potential of such software is, then the entire thread will get deleted.  I pointed out some blatent facts in another thread, and now the thread is GONE.  Not even locked, just GONE.  One more reason NOT to buy this game.  You go right ahead if you want some company looking over your shoulder all the time.

 

Plenty of people in this thread only pointed out that the OP is very misinformed.

Read through the reply more if you want to know why Gameguard is NOT a rootkit and why the OP had some bad informations except when it comes to his opinion about GG.  Since we all know opinions cannot be prove wrong, but wrong information can.

Originally posted by FunkyLasagne

Originally posted by Guillermo197

In what way does GG nullify your Anti Virus Software?

I run Avast Home Edition and it keeps happily running when I start up any game that uses GameGuard.

Seriously, all this paranoia makes me laugh real hard.

If you are so worried about Gameguard, then I advise you to disconnect yourself from the internet and throw your computer out of the window. (first magnetising your harddrives ofcourse, to erase all sensitive data).

Because the moment you hook up on the internet you are intruded from all directions. And there is nothing stopping it.

Gameguard is a saint piece of software compaired to the Internet Browers, google, Microsoft themselves and what not.

So please. Spare me all the paranoia about GG! It's getting more and more pathetic now.

 

What a disingenious strawman of an argument.  If you cannot debate in an honest fashion it is obvious that you don't have much of an argument at all.

It is a fact that GG uses nefarious programming techniques to overcome all sorts of system level security procedures against recommendations of system producers, and it is a fact that lots and lots of people have had major problems with it because of this.  Sitting on the edges denying that anyone has had any problems because of your own experience is frankly juvenile and is of use to no-one, least of all yourself.  What people chose to put on their system is up to them, particularly when it an utter (and potentially dangerous) POS such as GG.   If you have had a positive experience then good for you, but please don't be so pathetic as to deny that others do have problems with the software.

You know. Let's settle this once and for all. As this paranoia is taking ridiculous forms.

You want to know what a real rootkit is? HUH!!!!!! ?????

Let me tell you that I was one of the unlucky ones that was affected by Sony's Copy Protection program.

Back then CD burner drives were like 800 friggin dollars! An empty CD writable disc was like 25 dollars!!

I buy a nice music CD from the label Sony BMG, play it on my PC to listen to music in my room and have some fun.

A couple days later I wanted to back up some important documents on CD and I am running into an error with my drive.

Nero said that it couldn't find any CD writer medium!!!!

What happened? Our almighty Sony had installed a rootkit, rewritten the firmware of my 800 friggin dollar CD writer and turned it into a regular CD rom drive!!

I could not reset the firmware, nor update it anymore!  It was just out of warranty (just little over a year old).

So as student back then, I didnt had money flying around. It took me quite some saving to get the 800 bucks together to buy this drive!!

And thanks to Sony's rootkit it got completely destroyed!!

Luckily the local shop I bought the drive had gotten air of Sony's rootkit, had several other customers coming back with the same problem and was willing to replace my drive with a new one.

I formatted my harddrives, reinstalled my OS.  Installed the disc again. And didn't dare to play any music CD anymore on my computer.

A couple days later! BAM!!!!  Exact same problem again!  My CD writer was rendered useless again!!  I thought WTF!!!

So I got back to the store again, told the whole story that I had formatted all my harddrives, reinstalled everything. Didn't play any music CD's, etc.

The store owner was completely baffled!!

You know what happened???

THANKS TO SONY!!!!  I got so paranoid..... I ended up buying NEW harddrives and a NEW motherboard and NEW RAM!!!  Costed me closely to 1000 friggin dollars.  Bye bye savings!!

Never ever bought any music CD ever again from the Sony label.   Not till they were sued to death and forced to stop with their Copy Protection bullshit!!

So here you got a FRIGGIN rootkit!!!

So spare me this stupid bullshit about Gameguard and it being a rootkit!!! AS IT ISNT!!!

Cheers

GG has nothing to do with a rootkit... stop bringing lies out to the folks who dont know much about computers.

GG is just here to protect the game from basic hacks and cheats - GG is fine as it is... we never had any problem with it. If your virus scanner detects it as a virus, thats normal as GG acts like a virus scanner - just remove it from your realtime check - how I hate those conspiracy theories on the internet...

Originally posted by Guillermo197

Originally posted by FunkyLasagne

Originally posted by Guillermo197

In what way does GG nullify your Anti Virus Software?

I run Avast Home Edition and it keeps happily running when I start up any game that uses GameGuard.

Seriously, all this paranoia makes me laugh real hard.

If you are so worried about Gameguard, then I advise you to disconnect yourself from the internet and throw your computer out of the window. (first magnetising your harddrives ofcourse, to erase all sensitive data).

Because the moment you hook up on the internet you are intruded from all directions. And there is nothing stopping it.

Gameguard is a saint piece of software compaired to the Internet Browers, google, Microsoft themselves and what not.

So please. Spare me all the paranoia about GG! It's getting more and more pathetic now.

 

What a disingenious strawman of an argument.  If you cannot debate in an honest fashion it is obvious that you don't have much of an argument at all.

It is a fact that GG uses nefarious programming techniques to overcome all sorts of system level security procedures against recommendations of system producers, and it is a fact that lots and lots of people have had major problems with it because of this.  Sitting on the edges denying that anyone has had any problems because of your own experience is frankly juvenile and is of use to no-one, least of all yourself.  What people chose to put on their system is up to them, particularly when it an utter (and potentially dangerous) POS such as GG.   If you have had a positive experience then good for you, but please don't be so pathetic as to deny that others do have problems with the software.

 

You know. Let's settle this once and for all. As this paranoia is taking ridiculous forms.

You want to know what a real rootkit is? HUH!!!!!! ?????

Let me tell you that I was one of the unlucky ones that was affected by Sony's Copy Protection program.

Back then CD burner drives were like 800 friggin dollars! An empty CD writable disc was like 25 dollars!!

I buy a nice music CD from the label Sony BMG, play it on my PC to listen to music in my room and have some fun.

A couple days later I wanted to back up some important documents on CD and I am running into an error with my drive.

Nero said that it couldn't find any CD writer medium!!!!

What happened? Our almighty Sony had installed a rootkit, rewritten the firmware of my 800 friggin dollar CD writer and turned it into a regular CD rom drive!!

I could not reset the firmware, nor update it anymore!  It was just out of warranty (just little over a year old).

So as student back then, I didnt had money flying around. It took me quite some saving to get the 800 bucks together to buy this drive!!

And thanks to Sony's rootkit it got completely destroyed!!

Luckily the local shop I bought the drive had gotten air of Sony's rootkit, had several other customers coming back with the same problem and was willing to replace my drive with a new one.

I formatted my harddrives, reinstalled my OS.  Installed the disc again. And didn't dare to play any music CD anymore on my computer.

A couple days later! BAM!!!!  Exact same problem again!  My CD writer was rendered useless again!!  I thought WTF!!!

So I got back to the store again, told the whole story that I had formatted all my harddrives, reinstalled everything. Didn't play any music CD's, etc.

The store owner was completely baffled!!

You know what happened???

THANKS TO SONY!!!!  I got so paranoid..... I ended up buying NEW harddrives and a NEW motherboard and NEW RAM!!!  Costed me closely to 1000 friggin dollars.  Bye bye savings!!

Never ever bought any music CD ever again from the Sony label.   Not till they were sued to death and forced to stop with their Copy Protection bullshit!!

So here you got a FRIGGIN rootkit!!!

So spare me this stupid bullshit about Gameguard and it being a rootkit!!! AS IT ISNT!!!

Cheers

Nice rant.  Now wipe that spittle away from your mouth and actually try and be relevant.  Where did I say it was a rootkit in that post?  What I did say was that it was a badly programmed piece of software, using means that have horrific implications for system security, and doesn't even do what it was intended to do.  I can quite understand why someone would not want it on their system (I chose to, but I resent having to install GG) .

Again, please stop with the strawmen - it really is quite tiresome and doesn't really reflect well at all on your "arguments". 

Originally posted by Guillermo197

Originally posted by FunkyLasagne

Originally posted by Guillermo197

In what way does GG nullify your Anti Virus Software?

I run Avast Home Edition and it keeps happily running when I start up any game that uses GameGuard.

Seriously, all this paranoia makes me laugh real hard.

If you are so worried about Gameguard, then I advise you to disconnect yourself from the internet and throw your computer out of the window. (first magnetising your harddrives ofcourse, to erase all sensitive data).

Because the moment you hook up on the internet you are intruded from all directions. And there is nothing stopping it.

Gameguard is a saint piece of software compaired to the Internet Browers, google, Microsoft themselves and what not.

So please. Spare me all the paranoia about GG! It's getting more and more pathetic now.

 

What a disingenious strawman of an argument.  If you cannot debate in an honest fashion it is obvious that you don't have much of an argument at all.

It is a fact that GG uses nefarious programming techniques to overcome all sorts of system level security procedures against recommendations of system producers, and it is a fact that lots and lots of people have had major problems with it because of this.  Sitting on the edges denying that anyone has had any problems because of your own experience is frankly juvenile and is of use to no-one, least of all yourself.  What people chose to put on their system is up to them, particularly when it an utter (and potentially dangerous) POS such as GG.   If you have had a positive experience then good for you, but please don't be so pathetic as to deny that others do have problems with the software.

 

You know. Let's settle this once and for all. As this paranoia is taking ridiculous forms.

You want to know what a real rootkit is? HUH!!!!!! ?????

Let me tell you that I was one of the unlucky ones that was affected by Sony's Copy Protection program.

Back then CD burner drives were like 800 friggin dollars! An empty CD writable disc was like 25 dollars!!

I buy a nice music CD from the label Sony BMG, play it on my PC to listen to music in my room and have some fun.

A couple days later I wanted to back up some important documents on CD and I am running into an error with my drive.

Nero said that it couldn't find any CD writer medium!!!!

What happened? Our almighty Sony had installed a rootkit, rewritten the firmware of my 800 friggin dollar CD writer and turned it into a regular CD rom drive!!

I could not reset the firmware, nor update it anymore!  It was just out of warranty (just little over a year old).

So as student back then, I didnt had money flying around. It took me quite some saving to get the 800 bucks together to buy this drive!!

And thanks to Sony's rootkit it got completely destroyed!!

Luckily the local shop I bought the drive had gotten air of Sony's rootkit, had several other customers coming back with the same problem and was willing to replace my drive with a new one.

I formatted my harddrives, reinstalled my OS.  Installed the disc again. And didn't dare to play any music CD anymore on my computer.

A couple days later! BAM!!!!  Exact same problem again!  My CD writer was rendered useless again!!  I thought WTF!!!

So I got back to the store again, told the whole story that I had formatted all my harddrives, reinstalled everything. Didn't play any music CD's, etc.

The store owner was completely baffled!!

You know what happened???

THANKS TO SONY!!!!  I got so paranoid..... I ended up buying NEW harddrives and a NEW motherboard and NEW RAM!!!  Costed me closely to 1000 friggin dollars.  Bye bye savings!!

Never ever bought any music CD ever again from the Sony label.   Not till they were sued to death and forced to stop with their Copy Protection bullshit!!

So here you got a FRIGGIN rootkit!!!

So spare me this stupid bullshit about Gameguard and it being a rootkit!!! AS IT ISNT!!!

Cheers

LOL!!  That's EXACTLY what we're talking about!  ROFL!!!

www.cubetek.net/gameguard.php

Basically opens a tunnel into your system that bypasses ALL your security features.  And to make things worse, it stays memory resident even AFTER you log out of the game.  (What game needs anti-hacking software when your not logged in?)  None of this concerns you at all?  That's like saying, "Ok USA.  You have a kick ass military, well funded investigative bureaus, and local law enforcement across the country.  So I'll just sign off my second amendment rights because, I obviously won't need them. 

/facepalm

Oehnoes, I guess I have to cancel my preorder now! </sarcasm>

Originally posted by FunkyLasagne

 

Nice rant.  Now wipe that spittle away from your mouth and actually try and be relevant.  Where did I say it was a rootkit in that post?  What I did say was that it was a badly programmed piece of software, using means that have horrific implications for system security, and doesn't even do what it was intended to do.  I can quite understand why someone would not want it on their system (I chose to, but I resent having to install GG) .

Again, please stop with the strawmen - it really is quite tiresome and doesn't really reflect well at all on your "arguments". 

Gameguard does exactly what it should do. Try find and stop people from hacking and cheating in the game.

And ofcourse it's a never ending race with hackers finding ways around it with new hack programs and Gameguard identifying them and updating their GG database.

EXACTLY THE SAME as with Anti Virus software.  It protects you from existing virusses, but it doesn't protect you from new ones.

There will be a day that you are the unlucky one to run into a brand new virus and your AV software not detecting it.

That's how it goes! 

Both Gameguard and Antivirus software are REACTIVE programs. It's their bussiness and way of making money to continuely and activily track down / hunt down hack/cheat software (GG) and virusses/worms/malware (AV).

Both gameguard and AV software operate the same way. They both are able to bypass sertain security to be able to do their job.... simply because they have to operate at that low level... as the programs they try to hunt down and detect operate at that low level!!

In no way does Gameguard having horrific implications to your security. It's bullshit and you know it!

I can keep repeating myself like an old record as I have been saying it over and over and over already in this topic!!

I run Avast Home Edition, Windows FireWall on and my Apple Basestation configured in NAT as main protection... and all my games, including the ones using Gameguard! Run absolutely fine, without having to dissable any of my security programs nor do I have to dissable any security features!!

Cheers

there is always ways around things like this who cares, it's a fun game. i mean if your really that tweaked out about just stay off the net then no one can track anything.

Originally posted by FunkyLasagne

Originally posted by Guillermo197

Originally posted by FunkyLasagne

Originally posted by Guillermo197

In what way does GG nullify your Anti Virus Software?

I run Avast Home Edition and it keeps happily running when I start up any game that uses GameGuard.

Seriously, all this paranoia makes me laugh real hard.

If you are so worried about Gameguard, then I advise you to disconnect yourself from the internet and throw your computer out of the window. (first magnetising your harddrives ofcourse, to erase all sensitive data).

Because the moment you hook up on the internet you are intruded from all directions. And there is nothing stopping it.

Gameguard is a saint piece of software compaired to the Internet Browers, google, Microsoft themselves and what not.

So please. Spare me all the paranoia about GG! It's getting more and more pathetic now.

 

What a disingenious strawman of an argument.  If you cannot debate in an honest fashion it is obvious that you don't have much of an argument at all.

It is a fact that GG uses nefarious programming techniques to overcome all sorts of system level security procedures against recommendations of system producers, and it is a fact that lots and lots of people have had major problems with it because of this.  Sitting on the edges denying that anyone has had any problems because of your own experience is frankly juvenile and is of use to no-one, least of all yourself.  What people chose to put on their system is up to them, particularly when it an utter (and potentially dangerous) POS such as GG.   If you have had a positive experience then good for you, but please don't be so pathetic as to deny that others do have problems with the software.

 

You know. Let's settle this once and for all. As this paranoia is taking ridiculous forms.

You want to know what a real rootkit is? HUH!!!!!! ?????

Let me tell you that I was one of the unlucky ones that was affected by Sony's Copy Protection program.

Back then CD burner drives were like 800 friggin dollars! An empty CD writable disc was like 25 dollars!!

I buy a nice music CD from the label Sony BMG, play it on my PC to listen to music in my room and have some fun.

A couple days later I wanted to back up some important documents on CD and I am running into an error with my drive.

Nero said that it couldn't find any CD writer medium!!!!

What happened? Our almighty Sony had installed a rootkit, rewritten the firmware of my 800 friggin dollar CD writer and turned it into a regular CD rom drive!!

I could not reset the firmware, nor update it anymore!  It was just out of warranty (just little over a year old).

So as student back then, I didnt had money flying around. It took me quite some saving to get the 800 bucks together to buy this drive!!

And thanks to Sony's rootkit it got completely destroyed!!

Luckily the local shop I bought the drive had gotten air of Sony's rootkit, had several other customers coming back with the same problem and was willing to replace my drive with a new one.

I formatted my harddrives, reinstalled my OS.  Installed the disc again. And didn't dare to play any music CD anymore on my computer.

A couple days later! BAM!!!!  Exact same problem again!  My CD writer was rendered useless again!!  I thought WTF!!!

So I got back to the store again, told the whole story that I had formatted all my harddrives, reinstalled everything. Didn't play any music CD's, etc.

The store owner was completely baffled!!

You know what happened???

THANKS TO SONY!!!!  I got so paranoid..... I ended up buying NEW harddrives and a NEW motherboard and NEW RAM!!!  Costed me closely to 1000 friggin dollars.  Bye bye savings!!

Never ever bought any music CD ever again from the Sony label.   Not till they were sued to death and forced to stop with their Copy Protection bullshit!!

So here you got a FRIGGIN rootkit!!!

So spare me this stupid bullshit about Gameguard and it being a rootkit!!! AS IT ISNT!!!

Cheers

 

Nice rant.  Now wipe that spittle away from your mouth and actually try and be relevant.  Where did I say it was a rootkit in that post?  What I did say was that it was a badly programmed piece of software, using means that have horrific implications for system security, and doesn't even do what it was intended to do.  I can quite understand why someone would not want it on their system (I chose to, but I resent having to install GG) .

Again, please stop with the strawmen - it really is quite tiresome and doesn't really reflect well at all on your "arguments". 

Badly programmed software?  Yes, but no worse than most programs out there.

Horrific implications for system security?  Care to explain?

Doesn't do what it was intended to do?  Not correct.  I can even explain it to you if you explain this "horrific implications to system security" to me first.

Of course, I also understand why people without sufficient computer knowledge will hate GG since it make them do extra work or god forbid learn about stuff, but I seen much worst softwares in my life.

Many single player games install gamespy arcade and many anti virus programs see that as a problem when it really is nt . The only people that this will bother in anyway at all are a few geeks who worry about the most minimal threat to thier security. Theres an awful lot worse out there which we are exposed to everyday online and we dont worry about . This issue really is only brought up by people who dont want AION to do well ,most likly worried WOW fans who fear and exodus from thier game of choice . Because AION is a quality game they are trying a different tactic to put people of playing .

DONT PANIC ( in large friendly letters ) .

Originally posted by Craggur

No cuz i wont buy it.  You can have ppl watching what u google and what u watch on youtube.  Maybe that is cool if your a Chinaman, but it's not cool if you live in a "free country".

uhh, your racism is showing ... along with your ignorance. Oh my, are we starting to define ourselves?

Originally posted by linren

 

Badly programmed software?  Yes, but no worse than most programs out there.

Horrific implications for system security?  Care to explain?

Doesn't do what it was intended to do?  Not correct.  I can even explain it to you if you explain this "horrific implications to system security" to me first.

Of course, I also understand why people without sufficient computer knowledge will hate GG since it make them do extra work or god forbid learn about stuff, but I seen much worst softwares in my life.

 

The problem with Game Guard is it often intereferes with software meant the protect your computer. It's been known to open ports that shouldn't be open. It intereferes with many antivirus programs, themselves poorly written. It has hardware and software incompatabilities. I suppose some might forgive that except for one thing. It doesn't work. Almost as soon as a new version is released people begin circumventing it. Then in the rush to circumvent it people end up going to web sites they really shouldn't and catch some raally nasty malware. Different versions of it installed with different games intererfere with each other and it makes itself hellishly difficult to remove even when you have removed the application that installed it. Most of the time it doesn't even inform you it's being installed, which is illegal in many places. It's a scam both on the people who play games and the people who make games.

Originally posted by googajoob7

Many single player games install gamespy arcade and many anti virus programs see that as a problem when it really is nt . The only people that this will bother in anyway at all are a few geeks who worry about the most minimal threat to thier security. Theres an awful lot worse out there which we are exposed to everyday online and we dont worry about . This issue really is only brought up by people who dont want AION to do well ,most likly worried WOW fans who fear and exodus from thier game of choice . Because AION is a quality game they are trying a different tactic to put people of playing .

DONT PANIC ( in large friendly letters ) .

 

 

That's exactly the point.  Anti-virus packages "see" gamespy arcade.  Gameguard has been known to bypass, and in some instances disable, certain services required by the security software as it tries to stay hidden on your system.  All the while, being accessible to nProtect's update servers for as long as the program is running.  (I believe I've mentioned the fact that Gameguard continues to run even AFTER you log out of the game.)  We all know how often servers get hacked.  Who's to say nProtect's servers won't?  In fact, many of nProtect's clients have had MAJOR security breaches.  Coincidence? Maybe...

All it takes is 1 keylogger, slipped into your computer, through software that has been known to bypass your security suites.  May as well leave your front door unlocked, because your neighborhood has a police force.  Hell, that's not even the right analogy.  It's more like giving the cops the keys to your house.

Just because it's "supposed" to do good doesn't mean it's invulnerable to malicious intent.  The safest systems are the ones with informed, proactive users.  - Fact

9.9.8
Nice rootkit detector

fake anti spyware programs: Winantivirus, WinAntiSpyware, Antivirus 2008 (recently updated to 2009), Antispyware Pro XP, AntiVirus Lab 2009, Spyware Guard 2008, PC Center
ref and ref2

Originally posted by zymurgeist

Originally posted by linren

 

Badly programmed software?  Yes, but no worse than most programs out there.

Horrific implications for system security?  Care to explain?

Doesn't do what it was intended to do?  Not correct.  I can even explain it to you if you explain this "horrific implications to system security" to me first.

Of course, I also understand why people without sufficient computer knowledge will hate GG since it make them do extra work or god forbid learn about stuff, but I seen much worst softwares in my life.

 

 

The problem with Game Guard is it often intereferes with software meant the protect your computer. It's been known to open ports that shouldn't be open. It intereferes with many antivirus programs, themselves poorly written. It has hardware and software incompatabilities. I suppose some might forgive that except for one thing. It doesn't work. Almost as soon as a new version is released people begin circumventing it. Then in the rush to circumvent it people end up going to web sites they really shouldn't and catch some raally nasty malware. Different versions of it installed with different games intererfere with each other and it makes itself hellishly difficult to remove even when you have removed the application that installed it. Most of the time it doesn't even inform you it's being installed, which is illegal in many places. It's a scam both on the people who play games and the people who make games.

Ok, so Gameguard cause security risk mainly because people circumvent it and caught something while doing it? 

Poor players.

As for the other issues, currently still looking through difference sources, most of what you say were a bit exaggerated.  No valid sources have stated what you have said, but still looking, even though to find valid source that is not based on "he say, she say" have always been difficult.

Edit:  These sources are very lazy,  they did not update their data with the Gameguard patch updates.  Hmm, alot of unconfirmed references flying around, no wonder Gameguard got such a bad rep, some of these even are based on assumptions.  Invalid sources everywhere.

Originally posted by Craggur

No cuz i wont buy it.  You can have ppl watching what u google and what u watch on youtube.  Maybe that is cool if your a Chinaman, but it's not cool if you live in a "free country".

I just checked, you live in the US, so you don't live in a "free country."

(Freedom is an illusion, try not paying your taxes sometime and see how far you get)

Not sure what national security job you work in, nor do I believe Aions Gameguard is a threat to my "privacy", but if people want to see what I browse on youtube or whatever, fine, no sweat off my nose. (but they'll probably die of boredom first)

But you are correct, you do have the freedom to not buy the game which is the ultimate consumer freedom I suppose.

dg

I installed GG once for some FtP game (Mamboniji or something like that), had to do a complete system restore to get my computer to run correctly afterwards.

Maybe they've improved it since then, but I will never play another game that does that, I simply do not have the personal time to rebuild my computer that often.  It isn't a root kit and the security issues are vague and may or may not be true, but it is a very poorly written piece of software that I will not install again, ever.

Originally posted by RaVeR_Dave

Originally posted by googajoob7

Many single player games install gamespy arcade and many anti virus programs see that as a problem when it really is nt . The only people that this will bother in anyway at all are a few geeks who worry about the most minimal threat to thier security. Theres an awful lot worse out there which we are exposed to everyday online and we dont worry about . This issue really is only brought up by people who dont want AION to do well ,most likly worried WOW fans who fear and exodus from thier game of choice . Because AION is a quality game they are trying a different tactic to put people of playing .

DONT PANIC ( in large friendly letters ) .

 

 

 

That's exactly the point.  Anti-virus packages "see" gamespy arcade.  Gameguard has been known to bypass, and in some instances disable, certain services required by the security software as it tries to stay hidden on your system.  All the while, being accessible to nProtect's update servers for as long as the program is running.  (I believe I've mentioned the fact that Gameguard continues to run even AFTER you log out of the game.)  We all know how often servers get hacked.  Who's to say nProtect's servers won't?  In fact, many of nProtect's clients have had MAJOR security breaches.  Coincidence? Maybe...

All it takes is 1 keylogger, slipped into your computer, through software that has been known to bypass your security suites.  May as well leave your front door unlocked, because your neighborhood has a police force.  Hell, that's not even the right analogy.  It's more like giving the cops the keys to your house.

Just because it's "supposed" to do good doesn't mean it's invulnerable to malicious intent.  The safest systems are the ones with informed, proactive users.  - Fact

I don't see how anyone can be informed or proactive users about this subject when so much information floating on the web are invalid sources.  I have been digging through it for a few hours now.

You might want to define what clients you mean or even state them, because I am having a hard to time finding client breech that are not coincidence or hacking that is actually related to it as a software.  I mean hacking happen all the time, and I have not found anything that prove GG being directly responsible.  If you have some actual sources it will help save me some time.

It also only takes 1 virus to slip past your computer's protection to screw it up, why are we playing the game of chances?  Also going to need an example with diagnostic report that show evidence of this if it ever had happened.  Plenty of people had virus slip past their protections or hacked despite how much they know about preventing it.  This example is so hard to validate I'll put it in the "mere theory" pile for now until I find some reports on this.

I think the key word here are "malicious intents" is correct, since most of the half decent sources seem to indicate user or hacking by people that lead to or resulting most of the issue.  GG's standard problems still stand as a badly programmed software, but nothing so far-fetched as you suggested.  Unless provide me with some sources where I can actually confirm this.

Being a proactive and informed user is pretty hard, so help me out since apparently my source gathering skills have not been able to validate most of your comments.  Seriously, if you can just give me all the resources where you got your information from, then I would be able to save some time.  Exclude wiki please since I have read that, also exclude most references from those since I have read and found most of those invald due to most of those are about how to hack GG.

http://secunia.com/advisories/13928/ - and has been unpatched since 2005. 

I fail to understand how anyone can defend Gameguard.  I can understand tolerating it, but defending the arbitrary usage of this garbage is just laughable.  Then again, this is a gaming website full of biased fanboys.  Aion could cause a giant steel fist to come out of their monitor and punch them in the nuts, and someone would still be willing to defend it as a 'feature'.  If Aion were some awe-inspiring game, perhaps it would be worth dealing with GG on my system.  Unfortunately, that is far from the case.