in the UOForums FAQ about PunkBuster it talks about ILLEGAL 3rd party programs.

To answer your question - the programs you mentioned & linked to are illegal and using them are already against the TOS & ROC of UO/EA.

I do data entry for a job and sometimes I have UO running on the side with a vertical split. I use a keystroke/mouse macro program for my work, it allows me to record a # of keystrokes and mouse movements and do them all with one keystroke, and make my job alot easier, so that I have time to poke over to UO and spam something in luna.

Would my macro program be considered a macro program for UO, and would Punk buster bust me for it?

If This is ever implemented i will not every play ultima again. I dont you those pragrams,and you dont have the right to scan my hard drive, I dont care what you think.My privacy is my entitlement.It also seems to me,The developement team should take deep thought into giving any company that ability.We are all human,and humans dont always do the right thing.I don't care how safe you consider your employees,you cant read there minds.Seems to me,you may need a better developement team that actually knows programming, because third party programs are able to be detected and blocked at loggin screens,If your programmers is educated enuff to write the code.I say this,attempt to invade peoples privacy,and you will be in the un employment line soon.

Punkbuster's integration with UO was abandoned sometime back due to "Legal issues".
So I wouldn't worry about it.

Also,programming the game to not allow third party programs at all unless you do it before you log in, would completly take care of cheaters by enabling a detection system at login.You pay your developers well im sure.Perhaps its time you put there skills to the test,instead of having to raise monthly fees on players so an outside company can invade there privacey.

Whoah! Talk about random thread resurrection!