Origin

[Ded10c]

Insert rage here.

I tried it out on a test system recently, by the way. Within three minutes Process Monitor reported it accessing every process I was running multiple times and reporting what they were doing. Needless to say that machine got a good nuking.

I post this now because I encountered the news of Razor's anti-origin hack for BF3.

[Red Devil]

i wonder if Steam does the same thing. Which Razor?

[Ded10c]

The crackers. And there is no evidence currently to suggest Steam does the same thing - which is why EA gets so much flak for it.

The guy who made this video seems to have done a similar thing to me. Look at all those orange, circular hits. Not exactly pleasant.

EDIT: Well, Steam does take a look to find out if you're pirating Valve games, but it's resticted to purely that.

EDIT2/DISCLAIMER: I imagine you'll get banned if you go looking for and use it.

[MrTwosheds]

Lol, it is inevitable of course, that software will end up actually enforcing copyright laws...Nobody else seems to be capable of doing it.

[Red Devil]

i'd like to know the software he was using to see origin doing that. btw, i don't hack or use hacks, just squadwork

[Nielk1]

I've checked, Steam never leaves its own folder and never pokes any process it is not supposed to.

[Ded10c]

i'd like to know the software he was using to see origin doing that. btw, i don't hack or use hacks, just squadwork

Sysinternals' Process Monitor. Same thing I used. Sysinternals' software (even their Desktops program, suprisingly) is an exceptionally useful part of an IT utility toolkit.

[Red Devil]

hmm, forgot to reinstall that since going to w7.

[Ded10c]

Will test running Origin within Sandboxie over the weekend and see if it manages to block the queries.

[Ded10c]

Interesting. EA have changed Origin since I last tested it; no more process queries. It now behaves like Steam in that regard - querying its own locations only, though a lot more often.

[Nielk1]

Sandboxie wouldn't help BTW. It prevents modifications, not access, and it might start copying every file it looks at into the sandbox expecting an edit.

[Ded10c]

That's interesting; various people around the internet have reported Sandboxie completely stopping access. Maybe what they were actually seeing is Origin's new behaviour.