Today Gungho, the company running MMORPG Ragnarok Online announced the press release that they upgraded their client software so that it doesn't launch correctly if you're running "Perl.exe" or alike on your computer.
They decided to do so since most nasty bots on their RPG system are written in Perl and killing Perl.exe is the most effective way for a defense. This means if you're running Perl based client software like POPFile or Plagger, you have to shut it down before running the game. So lame...
Anyway I guess you can just rename the tools or do things like PAR/Perl2exe to cheat against that.
Re:s/perl/pita/g?
DAxelrod on 2006-09-12T22:42:11
If their License and Terms of Use are anything like WoW's, any method of subverting the anti-botting checks is grounds for account suspension. And if their software's anything like WoW, they have automatic ways of checking the obvious things like patching the binary, attaching a debugger, etc.Re:s/perl/pita/g?
jjore on 2006-09-12T22:48:02
Bastards.Re:s/perl/pita/g?
DAxelrod on 2006-09-13T00:08:54
I quite agree. WoW also used to (IIRC) read the titlebars of every open window in every application, compare them to a checksum database, and report you for botting if any of the checksums matched.
Caused quite a hubub at the time:
http://www.rootkit.com/blog.php?newsid=358
(Note: it may still do this.)
