Punk Buster definately is super lame. I understand their reasoning for only 1 small edge case:

What if your aimhax0r bawt is running as administrator but your game is running as you? Since PB running as a LUA will only find stuff your LUA has access to, you absolutely NEED it to check for the admin level stuff.

Then again I think, but Admin is a completely different context and it's damn near impossible for even an Administrator's executable to inject code into a LUA (or any other account for that matter). I believe SP2 has something against that very idea.

So yea, I don't trust PB much at all. Anyone who says they absolutely NEED admin priveledges is usually lying or on the ignorant side. Until PB can give a more reasonable answer I'll think they suck. They were fine without it just a year or so ago and unless there's some concrete evidence proving it's needed (like an actual example of this happening) I'd say they might be bluffing.

The sad part is because game companies are so focused on just making the game, they'll probably accept just about anything regardless of what it does to our computers. As long as it doesn't interrupt our game and increase costs for the company they could probably care less.

Tell us how you really feel. ;-)

It will be interesting to see how Vista will force these vendors to think about running as non-admin.

Good post. Keep fighting the good fight.

Good greif! People actually put up with a system that requires them to grant admin privs to a remote server?

I'm glad I don't play computer games. I had no idea this was par for the course in that universe.

I didn't understand till yet what do you mean by remote server.

I didn't understand till yet what do you mean by remote server. Harry

I don't have much more intrest in games.But i enjoyed reading you're article.You write such a nice article.
John Carter

I played these type of games in my childhood. We enjoyed lots of these games.But now only work no games ,no fun.I like you're article.
William