• PSO Blue Burst's nProtect Has Security Hole

    Barubary6 writes, "As reported on games.slashdot.org, the nProtect anti-cheat software used by Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst exposes Windows 2000/XP/2003 users to a security hole, local privilege escalation. Technical details of the flaw are here. If you want to stop the device driver when you're not running PSOBB, type the command "net stop npptnt2"."



    Once again, another great heads up. Thanks for the information. While I'm sure everyone runs a firewall and antivirus software, make sure that it is always active. A memory resident virus scanner like Norton AntiVirus should be able to pick up any problems and stop a computer frozen before the problem actually begins to work. Also, don't use use the firewall provided by Microsoft. Instead get one that checks both inbound and outbound traffic. Zone Alarm is a great free firewall that checks both inbound and outbound traffic. If you do use it with blue burst, when you begin to connect online, it will stop the computer to prompt for permission to connect. You may or may not be able to see this, but just hit the letter "a" on your keyboard and the connection will be made, This will only happen when it begins to check for updates. No other times should this happen.

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