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“GameGuard” being considered a “Trojan?”

July 10th, 2007 posted by Andrew in Rumors / Speculation

There have been recent reports that GameGuard a game hack prevention tool, is being considered a Trojan by Grisoft’s AVG Anti Virus. Such a report has been turning users away from playing GameGuard protected games, though there is nothing to be worried about.

Gameguard runs as a background process while the game is being played, and scans the processes (programs) that are currently running. It will compare these programs to GameGuard’s internal library, to detect whether or not the user is using tools to “hack” their game to do things such as increase their character’s stats, or gain rare items.
If the program running is listed as a hacking tool, GameGuard will terminate the process.

Because this program has the ability to modify and terminate processes, AVG Anti-virus is considering this program a “trojan” while other anti-virus programs know that this program is designed to serve the community rather than destroy it.

GameGuard is a product of nProtect, a company that offers multiple anti-virus, anti-hacking, and encryption solutions.

10 / July / 2007 

  • 1. Sean  |  July 10th, 2007 at 4:33 pm

    Yes, Gameguard uses such functions to detect hacking tools, however, from what I know (and from a smidge of personal experience), the trojans didn’t start appearing until some recent update (Several confused members of a support forum for Flyff, a game that uses GameGuard also had this, and a friend of mine had it too). Some are saying what has been stated here, some are saying that their scanner never found this before. Myself, I dunno what to think.

  • 2. Andrew  |  July 10th, 2007 at 4:35 pm

    The recent update to GameGuard was perhaps written a little differently than it was in the past. This small difference is probably what threw off AVG.

  • 3. Sean  |  July 10th, 2007 at 4:41 pm

    But this happened more than once (At least to my friend). Is it possible that the updates are being written differently as of the one that started the initial trojan?

  • 4. Andrew  |  July 10th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

    Like I said, there was possibly a change from the patches that were deemed safe, to the ones that are deemed unsafe. Then if the next update was written the same as the “unsafe” one, it’d be considered “unsafe” again.

    It’s either a change in a GameGuard update, or AVG itself.

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