Imagine working on a term paper while playing a little maple, GG mistakes a regular program for a modified cheat program, and goes ahead and crashes your computer, without notifying you, warning you, or anything else. All data is imediately lost, all programs have no time to close what so ever, it is essentialling giving you a BSOD (blue screen of death: ) Don't confuse this with it causing your computer to restart. If it finds a program that INCA has deemed a "threat" it will take 2 courses of action:ġ) Close down maple(or the protected game) and give you a message saying that a hack has been detected, however it is worth noting that the shutdown method it can employ is a rather agressive one that can lead to stability problemsĢ) It causes an internal error in your system (the specifics which i am unfamiliar with) and causes your computer to crash. Note that it is not just scanning for programs by name, but searching through the programs for any matching strings that are found in these programs. GG is always monitoring your running processes, and what is loaded into your memory. This can be defeated by writing a specialized window spy dll and having it injected into GG apon startup, or by targeting maple during initialization period. This can be rather frustrating if you need to close maple, or if GG freezes or decides not to shut down all of the way, in which case a complete restart is the only way to reopen maple. The reason for this is so that programs cannot just directly attach to the program, this defeats many attempts at creating cheat trainers for the game, it is also harder to attach memory editing programs to it. One of the things that GameGuard (GG) does is hide the program from your processlist, if you open up your task manager you will see neither Maplestory nor s (gameguard) running, this is because they are hidden. This basically means that it can monitor and control information both inside and outside of your computers lowest regions of security. Well obviously it is a game protection software, but more specifically, it is a rootkit, specifically 2 kinds:
![known nprotect gameguard error process known nprotect gameguard error process](https://www.techyv.com/sites/default/users/Sharath%20Reddy/Riders-of-Icarus-server-error-503-second-300x280.jpg)
Okay first off, what IS GameGuard exactly?
![known nprotect gameguard error process known nprotect gameguard error process](https://www.techyv.com/sites/default/files/users/Thomas%20H%20Linquist/Rappelz-nProtect.jpg)
For that sake of those who aren't interested, along with the length of the post, I will LJ-cut the entire thing.īasics. For those of you interested in exactly what GameGuard is doing on your computer, I'll go ahead and compile what i know, along with a famous example of inca's carelessness in allowing access to your system.