[Senator Bedfellow]

Fortunately, it's really easy to test for the presence of the rootkit because it was so poorly written.

True, but that doesn't help the folks at Blizzard - what are they going to do, ban everyone who's bought a Sony CD?

Anyway, just thought it was fun to see what sorts of things this little proggy was turning into a vector for. Aside from some sloppiness in the implementation, it's kind of a clever idea, in a perversely evil sort of way ;)

[zeugma]

When I was speaking of how easy it was to test for, I was thinking more in terms of the users themselves. Anyone who thinks they might be infected with this DRM/Rootkit, can do it quickly from the command line, or even your gui file explorer.

Regarding the WoW folks using it to hide things, I would imagine or hope that a patch could come out to test for it. I'm not into the gaming scene so I'm not sure how it would be enforced. Folks who cheat on such things are pretty low IMO. They probably cheat in solitaire too.