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You know what irks me? Without this feature, anything that pops up in the background kills EQ. Yep. Ever had Norton Antivirus decide to scan while you were playing?

EQW does provide a very necessary and valuable service. EQ is protected against someone messing with the data while they are playing anyway. I could just as easily use my firewall to sniff packets out, change them, and send the modified packets along. I could also run programs on my machine from another machine and mess with EQ.

However, EQ was built to detect such tinkering. If tinkering is detected, why make attempts to further prevent it by locking the user into the program and out of the rest of the machine?

In my opinion, people should use EQW. It is invaluable. Just don't tell the GMs!

08-19-2002, 05:16 PM	#2
UniDyne A Tundra Mammoth Join Date: Jul 2002 Server: Veeshan Posts: 64	You know what irks me? Without this feature, anything that pops up in the background kills EQ. Yep. Ever had Norton Antivirus decide to scan while you were playing? EQW does provide a very necessary and valuable service. EQ is protected against someone messing with the data while they are playing anyway. I could just as easily use my firewall to sniff packets out, change them, and send the modified packets along. I could also run programs on my machine from another machine and mess with EQ. However, EQ was built to detect such tinkering. If tinkering is detected, why make attempts to further prevent it by locking the user into the program and out of the rest of the machine? In my opinion, people should use EQW. It is invaluable. Just don't tell the GMs!