FiringSquad: What are the current most popular cheats and hacks that you have seen crop up in games and how do you combat it?

Tony Ray: Cheats that give the cheater information about enemy players that non-cheating players normally do not have continue to be the most popular type of cheat. This includes wallhacks, tag hacks, so-called chams, etc. Always knowing where enemies are or having enemies highlighted to always stand out against any background is a huge advantage that warps the gameplay greatly to the cheaters advantage. Most of these cheats hack the operating system to insert cheat code via dll injection or by detouring low level Windows API calls. We have continued to improve PB over the past months to be able to detect new insertion methods as they surface. And our new code detects the actual methods used by advanced hacks so that we can catch private hacks as well as public hacks. We do still catch a surprising number of new cheats using very old detection methods, but our newer advanced methods are handy when the old methods are avoided by the more skilled hack authors.