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by ShabbosGoy 3243 days ago
Is selling Trojans illegal? If so, why are companies like Punkbuster and nProtect allowed to develop anticheat software?

A lot of AC software runs in ring0 and behaves a lot like a Trojan. I remember nProtect specifically injecting DLLs into explorer.exe among other nasty "black hat" techniques.

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It's a difference in kind, not degree. The trojan in this case was meant to harvest banking and Amazon logins.
Intent matters.