Cheat Engine

[Warren1997]

Hello, i was wondering how i can use cheat engine to detect if a process is monitoring my computer. Some things i can think of are:
1) Watching process list, eg checking to see if cheat engine or another program is running, even if not attached.
2) Recording computer name, HWID, calling home.
3) Checking to see if game files have been modified.
4) (I think i know this one a little) Checking running memory of important sections within the game, looking for code caves.
5) (not sure if this is possible?) Checking to see if cheat engine is installed, even if not running.

I am not very experienced, and I am sure i might not have the knowledge or ability to stop/prevent/trick these types of things, but i would like to learn at least how to detect them.

I am a little more concerned about the spying "ethics" versus anti-cheat, as i think it is pretty shady to be doing things like 1) and 2).

Thanks for any help you can provide!

[atom0s]

There are much better tools for these kinds of things than Cheat Engine, which is not designed for this. (Not saying you can't though.)

There are tools like:
- procmon
- procexp
- WireShark
- Windows has a build-in resource manager.
- Various programs to hook Windows API, such as API Monitor.

Keep in mind, doing any of this from usermode level can be easily bypassed and hidden from. So if a piece of software is potentially stealing information, doing usermode hooks/monitoring is likely to be useless depending on how things are coded.

[Warren1997]

Thank you! I will give these all a try!