Fantastically interesting blog post on rootkit about how Blizzard (the company that makes Starcraft, Warcraft and World of Warcraft (WoW) uses spyware to detect cheating.
WoW downloads a program on the fly from the server, runs it about every 15 seconds or so. The program goes and checks every dll loaded into WoW's process space, every window that is open on your desktop or toolbar and every process that is currently running to check if its one of the known blizzard cheat programs.
A small step forward to weed out the cheaters, a giant step backwards in protecting your customers' privacy.
Are you running as an Administrator? (Not running as an admin would prevent this, of course)
Its been a while. I apologize. Work and things have taken over life's ultimate purpose: blogging. No more.
First off, some books that I've read - I should start compiling a list - but here are a few in the meantime.
Jonathan Strange and Dr. Norell (by Susanna Clarke): Fantastic fiction - a slightly more adult version of Harry Potter (lots of stuff about magic and things like that) but still very, very good. Lots of interesting, made-up lore, yet still reads and feels like a "normal" novel, not a fantasy (like the Sword of Shannara or one of those serieses). Its about two magicians, Jonathan Strange and Dr. Norell, their friendship, enmity, and the resultant rise of British magic. Well, its fiction, so don't take the previous sentence as fact.
Peopleware (by DeMarco and Lister): I don't know why I didn't mention this before, but apparently I didn't (and I'm too lazy to search the blog. Best. Software. Development. Book. Ever.
Enough said.