Bypassing AutoIt

[Delaunay]

Some years ago, I wrote a basic script to interact with a game:

Func Test()

Send("a")

Sleep("100")

MouseMove(100,100)

Sleep("100")

EndFunc

It worked fine. It used to move the mouse and send the "a" key (equivalent as pressed in the keyboard). Today, the same script doesnt work any longer with the same game, but I see that some other Autoit scripts keep working fine. After reading a lot of FAQ section, I tried to increase the SendKeyDownDelay etc, but didnt work either...

Opt ("WinTitleMatchMode", 2 )

Opt ("MouseClickDownDelay", 55)

Opt ("MouseClickDelay", 1 )

Opt ("SendKeyDownDelay", 10 )

Opt ("SendKeyDelay", 1 )

Opt ("CaretCoordMode", 2 )

Tried to focus the Game window (via WinActivate()) and didnt work either... So, my questions are, basically:

1. HOW CAN A SOFTWARE DISTINGUISH AN ORIGINAL KEYBOARD KEYPRESS FROM ITS AUTOIT EMULATION?

2. IS THERE ANY WAY TO PREVENT BEING ACESSED BY AUTOIT COMMANDS?

3. HOW DOES A SOFTWARE AVOID (OR BYPASS) AN AUTOIT'S COMMAND?

Thanks...

Edited July 30, 2008 by Delaunay

[herewasplato]

...3. HOW DOES A SOFTWARE AVOID (OR BYPASS) AN AUTOIT'S COMMAND?...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameGuard

[junkew]

1. HOW CAN A SOFTWARE DISTINGUISH AN ORIGINAL KEYBOARD KEYPRESS FROM ITS AUTOIT EMULATION?

Study general architecture on keyboard architecture of windows

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646267(VS.85).aspx

Study windows driver kit

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms790176.aspx

and commands like

keybd_event http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646304(VS.85).aspx

sendinput http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646310(VS.85).aspx

[Delaunay]

Many thanks

[Minikori]

#3 Continued:

What GameGuard does is check to see if programs with certain extensions or signatures are executed or already running once it's started, and I believe it blocks .au3 files.