what you think of this..

[Newborn]

World of Warcraft: Anti-cheating Agreement

To continue, please read and accept the Anti-cheating Agreement

In an attempt to provide all users an equal opportunity to play World of Warcraft game in a ?cheat free? environment, please be aware that World of Warcraft monitors the computer that you use to access World of Warcraft for unauthorized third party programs running concurrently with World of Warcraft by performing limited scans of your computer.


By clicking on ?accept? below, you acknowledge and accept that Blizzard has the right to perform the scans. If you do not agree to allow Blizzard to perform the scans, you will not be able to register an account to play World of Warcraft. More information..."

so I was trying to make raf accounts, and this anti cheat agreement popped up, has anyone ever got banned cause of this? I'm making accounts with the same name and everything, worries me abit ;p

 

[Spookz101]

Blizzard CANNOT scan anything outside the wow folder, NOTHING, no processes, NO ANYTHING, HB attaches itself to wow, if anyone tells you otherwise then they don't know how blizz got in a big law suit for reading outside the wow folder a few years back.

 

[greaterdeath]

Blizzard CANNOT scan anything outside the wow folder, NOTHING, no processes, NO ANYTHING, HB attaches itself to wow, if anyone tells you otherwise then they don't know how blizz got in a big law suit for reading outside the wow folder a few years back.

I've heard that explanation a lot. What I have *never* heard is why that statement exists in the ToS, which has been updated since "a few years back". I'm just curious what it actually refers to (in the present time); warden scanning wow.exe sounds quite different from "performing limited scans of your computer".

 

[Makkli]

I've heard that explanation a lot. What I have *never* heard is why that statement exists in the ToS, which has been updated since "a few years back". I'm just curious what it actually refers to (in the present time); warden scanning wow.exe sounds quite different from "performing limited scans of your computer".

And yet wouldn't performing a scan limited to wow.exe on your computer be exactly that?

The statement exists because words are powerful and "we're going to perform scans of your computer and we're going to force you to agree to it" is legally accurate and yet sounds much scarier and threatening than "we're going to scan our process which is all we're allowed to do by law since we got the smackdown from the court and would be open to a massive lawsuit if we violated the court order by doing it again so we're hoping we sound ominous enough that you'll just stop it."

Technically speaking they scan your entire damn computer.
Legally speaking they are under specific court order never to do so again and risking the monster guaranteed win lawsuit and the massive PR nightmare would be business suicide.
They can ask you to agree to anything they want in that TOS, doesn't necessarily make it legally binding.
The details of the TOS don't have to be legally binding because the real agreement between you and Blizz is you bought a license to access a service which they have the right to discontinue at any time at their sole discretion. You don't have any rights other than they keep their nose out of your computer.