It is even worse than most anti-cheat clients which "only" monitor and notify.
Not only will it actively pre-emptively change the state of your programs, some changes irrecoverably, but in addition it cannot be independently uninstalled, i.e. the game publisher who bundles it has to provide an uninstaller for it or it will not be uninstalled if you remove the game.
It is even worse than most anti-cheat clients which "only" monitor and notify.
Not only will it actively pre-emptively change the state of your programs, some changes irrecoverably, but in addition it cannot be independently uninstalled, i.e. the game publisher who bundles it has to provide an uninstaller for it or it will not be uninstalled if you remove the game.
Gameguard is also believed to contain a keylogger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NProtect_GameGuard).
It is basically a commercial rootkit that is relatively easily circumvented by cheaters anyway.