this is not a finger pointed at you, more at those who laughed theyre ass off in the last few
days when i posted that blizzard can and will do the above if they want to and no one stops em.
And the above is not limited to the wow system, windows running processes has nothing to do with
the so called wow area and is only there to determine if you are running a cheat program next to wow.
Sorry to say that but you know nothing about programming. Sure Blizzard can scan all that, but it's detectable. Just take the simple process monitor as you mentioned. In fact Blizzard tries to read Internet Explorer 4 settings, which doesn't exist on my computer ;-)
Now you can say: "Blizzard is not so stupid to do it the obvious way"
Good use the process monitor from Sysinternals. That can list you anything the normal process monitor doesn't show, it shows you even what registers in the RAM are used by which process, what started it and so on. You can clearly observe what is started when you launch Wow. They don't monitor anything outside their own process. Of course they read settings about you internet connection, computer specification, IP and MAC adresses but just nothing more.
Now you can say: "Blizzard is very, very clever, they can even hide it from the operating system"
*MEEP* That's illegal, it means to alter OS system files or even the bios/efi on the mainboard. And that copyright belongs to giants like Microsoft, Apple, IBM whatever OS you are using. Sony tried it once with a copy protection progamm called XCP and was sued by microsoft because of copyright infringement. It was settled out of court. No one tried it ever since.
That's why they don't do it. Because when it's detectable it's easy to write a programm that gives back the right answers. Take Assassins Creed 3. Perhaps it took 5 days instead of 2, but the copy protection was disabled.