Patent ID: 8713652

Claim:
A method for protecting network-attached gaming machines by isolating a gaming machine the method comprising: providing an operating system for use on a controller of the gaming machine; providing a wagering game controlled by the operating system and operable to receive a wager of monetary value and to generate a game outcome; recognizing unauthorized attempts by rogue code to manipulate the game outcome of the wagering game; and securing, by the operating system, the gaming machine from recognized unauthorized attempts to manipulate the game outcome of the wagering game by the rogue code by: isolating the gaming machine from other gaming machines by disabling a network access feature of the operating system, the disabling including disabling a network interface of the operating system and removing at least one transport layer of a network stack from the gaming machine; and removing debugging information from the wagering game controlled by the operating system, the debugging information including a symbol table, wherein the symbol table maps functions and variables of the wagering game to memory locations of the gaming machine.