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Some explanation.

No data is being transferred between your computer and Blizzard while the Warden is watching.

The Warden is simply a program with a very specific checklist. If it find a title of a window in conjunction with a couple of lines in the file to see if it is one of the programs that violate Blizzard's EULA.

If it finds something, it simply sends a report of time, date, account name, and violating software.

Since it is scanning active memory, you could have every WoW hack to date on your hard drive, but it wouldn't do anything if you weren't running them.

If anyone has any history of past Blizzard games, you would know the hacking history. From Diablo to Starcraft to Diablo 2. Diablo online was nearly destroyed from hacking programs.

Addendum, the Blizzard EULA:

13. Acknowledgments. You hereby acknowledge that:

A. WHEN RUNNING, THE WORLD OF WARCRAFT CLIENT MAY MONITOR YOUR COMPUTERS RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (RAM) AND/OR CPU PROCESSES FOR UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAMS RUNNING CONCURRENTLY WITH WORLD OF WARCRAFT. AN "UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM" AS USED HEREIN SHALL BE DEFINED AS ANY THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY "ADDON" OR "MOD," THAT IN BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENTS SOLE DETERMINATION: (i) ENABLES OR FACILITATES CHEATING OF ANY TYPE; (ii) ALLOWS USERS TO MODIFY OR HACK THE WORLD OF WARCRAFT INTERFACE, ENVIRONMENT, AND/OR EXPERIENCE IN ANY WAY NOT EXPRESSLY AUTHORIZED BY BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT; OR (iii) INTERCEPTS, "MINES," OR OTHERWISE COLLECTS INFORMATION FROM OR THROUGH WORLD OF WARCRAFT. IN THE EVENT THAT WORLD OF WARCRAFT DETECTS AN UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM, BLIZZARD MAY (a) COMMUNICATE INFORMATION BACK TO BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION YOUR ACCOUNT NAME, DETAILS ABOUT THE UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM DETECTED, AND THE TIME AND DATE THE UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM WAS DETECTED; AND/OR (b) EXERCISE ANY OR ALL OF ITS RIGHTS UNDER SECTION 6 OF THIS AGREEMENT, WITH OR WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE TO THE USER.

old thread day but saw this

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If anyone has any history of past Blizzard games, you would know the hacking history. From Diablo to Starcraft to Diablo 2. Diablo online was nearly destroyed from hacking programs.”

Diablo (one) was absolutely rendered functionally useless for multiplayer outside of private games by same. Of course back then you were dependent on bnet iirc, and a much smaller user-base....

it was a joke, to say the least, despite being a game with no comparable competitor product that I was aware of.