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Cheating - Multiplayer Gaming's Achilles' heel?

Posted by Scaramanga at 23:53 17/5/2003.

... Is the title of a new article over at Tom's Hardware Guide, which describes cheating in multiplayer games including Counter-Strike. The content of the article is mainly factual - giving descriptions of the various types of cheat (wallhack, auto-aim etc.) - with a few opinions at the end on the reasons for cheating. Most of the content is fairly well known but it makes an interesting read nevertheless.

Here's a snippet:

Client Hook - This is the most common method of cheating in current games, and works by loading up a 'client loader' when the game is executed, and inserting numerous lines of code into memory, thus allowing the game to be manipulated in a number of different ways directly from its memory. Most auto-aim and wallhack cheats use this method, due to the fact that until recently it has been quite difficult to detect.