The Warden

[EvilEggCracker]

Now, Im sure we all know what the Warden is. If you dont then its basically a program that scans your computer for illeagal programs. Blizzard uses this in WoW and I was wondering; if I have an illeagal program on my computer but it has nothing to do with WoW will The Warden recognise it and if so will Blizzard do anything?

[killer-penguin]

They can't do anything, their program is designed to find trojans that would steal your username/password and is used to find and stop cheating programs that would enable you to do things they have not intended.

WC3 has a similar program they just never advertised it as much.

[Ender]

Another program was created to counter the Warden, but I can't remember the name of it now.

[Incantrix]

The program some guy made to watch The Warden is called The Governer. And illegal is only in terms of programs that have to do with WoW. Though it would be nic if the Warden watched for viruses too... =D

[bluemicrobyte]

Blizzard recently added a launcher (the window that pops up before you start WoW) which scans for some viruses related to WoW. It also warns you if the Warden finds anything so you can fix it before playing WoW (caus if you don't fix it and start playing WoW then your in trouble).

The Warden will not do anything if it finds out (and it wont) that you're doing something else illegal on your computer. It only acts if it determines that you're cheating in World of Warcraft in some way (which you shouldn't be anyways).