![]() The purpose of the component is most likely to flag users for the banwave that just hit. The component was silently removed again on the 27th. TL,DR: Arena silently shipped a spyware component as part of one of their updates on March 6th that submitted hashes of all processes running on your system to their servers, compromising your privacy, degrading your system's performance as well as potentially flagging a bunch of innocent users to be banned. Please be aware, that while the majority of my analysis continues to be correct, the component inside GW2 will only report back specific applications and not all of them. I am not going to edit out my mistake in an attempt to hide it. I encouraged him to create his own thread as it deserves more attention than being an update in this thread. In the same way, I am a strong believer in admitting my own mistakes. I am a strong believer in holding companies accountable for their actions. ![]() In addition, the problem of false bans being issued, because you had the "wrong" programs running, as well as the performance hit, are unaffected by this. ![]() I am sure a lot of users will still have privacy concerns about Guild Wars 2 reading files, that don't belong to the game, but, provided that the blacklist is specific enough, the privacy implications will be less severe as originally assumed. My focus was mostly about their method of detection and how it was sent to the server, so I missed it in my first analysis. EDIT: They released a statement confirming my findings: ĮDIT 2: /u/Harding_Mindbender looked deeper into the detection code and found an additional code block that appears to do some filtering.
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