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"When StarForce 3.0 was released, it initially provided extremely strong protection - the StarForce 3.0-protected game Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory was uncracked
by shalmanese 15y ago
"When StarForce 3.0 was released, it initially provided extremely strong protection - the StarForce 3.0-protected game Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory was uncracked for 424 days.[11][12] It also marked a significant step up in the effort required to reverse engineer it.[13]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarForce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarForce
- tptacek 15y agoStarforce, for those here not familiar with it, is essentially a very competently designed kernel rootkit: it installs a VM in kernel mode triggered by interrupt handlers, hooks nt!SwapContext to track every execution context on the system, and basically runs as a resident service to decrypt functions in game titles on demand.